Re: netfilter: Hung task

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso
Date: Sun Mar 18 2012 - 20:28:40 EST


On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:52:55PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:55:13PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I got the following spew after fuzzing using trinity on a KVM tools
> >> guest, using the latest linux-next.
> >>
> >> It reminds me a lot of https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/14/375 and
> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/14/45
> >
> > You mention neither Linux kernel version nor the way you trigger this.
> >
> > With that little information it's really hard to really know.
>
> Hum? I've mentioned it happened with "the latest linux-next" (which is
> currently two days old), and using the trinity fuzzer - which means
> that I don't have a specific method to reproduce the problem.

Sorry, I should not read my email diagonally, really.

Looking at the trace, I'd point to some problem in the slub memory
allocator. Please, correct me if I'm wrong.

Christoph?
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