Re: 2.2.x crashes

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:44:39 +0100


On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 08:08:33AM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:

> > I have seen numerous crashes on kernels 2.2.x kernels (mostly 2.2.9 and
> > 2.2.10) all in function:
> >
> > c011e270 T kfree
>
> What's more useful to know is the function that called kfree. It should
> be on the call trace line of the oops log.

Unfortunately, I expect what's happened is that something trashed the slab
allocator's internal data structures a while before, and the kfree() oops is
just a side effect of this.

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