Re: 2.6.25-rc8-mm2: FIX kmalloc-2048 (was Re: 2.6.25-rc8-mm2: IP:[<ffffffff802868f9>] __kmalloc+0x69/0x110)

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> I can reproduce semi-reliably (by kernel standards) corruption in
> kmalloc-2048. No idea if this can explain all "struct file" related
> oopses I saw, or SLUB free pointer corruption Pekka and Christoph are
> looking into.

The slub free pointer corruption is usually a result of the overwrites.

> Bytes b4 0xffff81017ff9d2c0:  62 ea ff ff 00 00 00 00 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a
>   Object 0xffff81017ff9d2d0:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
>   Object 0xffff81017ff9d2e0:  6b 6b 00 18 f3 a2 9f 90 00 1b 38 af 22 49 08 00
>   Object 0xffff81017ff9d2f0:  45 10 00 4c ff 59 40 00 40 11 86 ac c0 a8 00 2a
>   Object 0xffff81017ff9d300:  50 fa a2 be 91 43 00 7b 00 38 54 d4 23 00 00 00
>   Object 0xffff81017ff9d310:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>   Object 0xffff81017ff9d320:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>   Object 0xffff81017ff9d330:  00 00 00 00 4c ff 10 44 74 7f 6f 9d e4 c8 a2 4f
>   Object 0xffff81017ff9d340:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>  Redzone 0xffff81017ff9dad0:  bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb
>  Padding 0xffff81017ff9db10:  5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a
> 
> FIX kmalloc-2048: Restoring 0xffff81017ff9d2e2-0xffff81017ff9d8d9=0x6b

Looks like skb corruption. Would be helpful to have the complete output 
though. Does the data in the restored range trigger any memories?



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