Re: Need help debugging memory corruption

[Jay Cliburn]

On Sun, 4 May 2008 17:02:59 +0200
"Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Are you familiar with the kernel command-line option slub_debug=FZPU ?
> If this was not yet enabled, recompiling your kernel with
> CONFIG_SLUB=y and CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y enabled and specifying
> slub_debug=FZPU on the kernel command line will probably provide more
> detailed information about the cause of the memory corruption.

Bart,

Using slub_debug=FZPU didn't seem to add more information.
CONFIG_SLUB=y and CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y are (and were previously) set.

Thanks.

title Fedora (2.6.26-rc1)
        root (hd0,5)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26-rc1 ro root=LABEL=/1 console=ttyS0,38400 console=tty0 slub_debug=FZPU
        initrd /initrd-2.6.26-rc1.img


=============================================================================
BUG kmalloc-2048: Poison overwritten
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

INFO: 0xffff81010004297a-0xffff810100042f71. First byte 0x0 instead of 0x6b
INFO: Allocated in dev_alloc_skb+0x16/0x2c age=5813 cpu=0 pid=3029
INFO: Freed in skb_release_data+0xa8/0xad age=201 cpu=0 pid=0
INFO: Slab 0xffffe20005801600 objects=15 used=0 fp=0xffff810100045b18 flags=0x8000000000002082
INFO: Object 0xffff810100042968 @offset=10600 fp=0xffff8101000418d8

Bytes b4 0xffff810100042958:  aa 91 fd ff 00 00 00 00 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a ï.ïï....ZZZZZZZZ
  Object 0xffff810100042968:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
  Object 0xffff810100042978:  6b 6b 00 17 31 4e 9d 41 00 0f db bc af 14 08 00 kk..1N.A..Ûï...
  Object 0xffff810100042988:  45 00 00 4e 87 5e 00 00 40 11 6e 82 c0 a8 01 fe E..N.^..@.n.ïïïïïïï.ï
  Object 0xffff810100042998:  c0 a8 01 70 00 89 00 89 00 3a 3b 67 00 09 00 00 ïï.p.....:;g....
  Object 0xffff8101000429a8:  00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 43 4b 41 41 41 41 41 .........CKAAAAA
  Object 0xffff8101000429b8:  41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
  Object 0xffff8101000429c8:  41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 00 00 21 00 01 f0 53 AAAAAAAAA..!..
  Object 0xffff8101000429d8:  56 17 df 3e 3b 9f b7 1f 2d 29 f0 68 cf 4d 61 97 V.ï>;.ï.-)ïhïMa.
 Redzone 0xffff810100043168:  bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb                         ïðïïïïïï        
 Padding 0xffff8101000431a8:  5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a                         ZZZZZZZZ        
Pid: 3030, comm: ifconfig Not tainted 2.6.26-rc1 #3

Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8108cf62>] print_trailer+0x123/0x12c
 [<ffffffff8108d00f>] check_bytes_and_report+0xa4/0xcb
 [<ffffffff8108d33e>] check_object+0xca/0x212
 [<ffffffff8108d6cd>] __free_slab+0x85/0xfd
 [<ffffffff811e5dd3>] ? skb_release_data+0xa8/0xad
 [<ffffffff8108d77d>] discard_slab+0x38/0x3a
 [<ffffffff8108e172>] __slab_free+0xdb/0x2ac
 [<ffffffff8108e47a>] kfree+0xbc/0xcb
 [<ffffffff811e5dd3>] ? skb_release_data+0xa8/0xad
 [<ffffffff811e5dd3>] skb_release_data+0xa8/0xad
 [<ffffffff811e6494>] skb_release_all+0xc9/0xce
 [<ffffffff811e5c2e>] __kfree_skb+0x11/0x78
 [<ffffffff811e5cbc>] kfree_skb+0x27/0x29
 [<ffffffffa00cc3aa>] :atl1:atl1_clean_rx_ring+0x7e/0xe2
 [<ffffffffa00cc4d7>] :atl1:atl1_down+0xc9/0xce
 [<ffffffffa00cedcd>] :atl1:atl1_close+0x18/0x27
 [<ffffffff811ebe2d>] dev_close+0x57/0x72
 [<ffffffff811ebb31>] dev_change_flags+0xa8/0x164
 [<ffffffff8122f44c>] devinet_ioctl+0x26a/0x5f6
 [<ffffffff8122fc79>] inet_ioctl+0x92/0xaa
 [<ffffffff811df6d4>] sock_ioctl+0x1da/0x202
 [<ffffffff8109f252>] vfs_ioctl+0x2a/0x77
 [<ffffffff8109f501>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x262/0x27f
 [<ffffffff8109f575>] sys_ioctl+0x57/0x7a
 [<ffffffff8100bff7>] tracesys+0xd5/0xda

FIX kmalloc-2048: Restoring 0xffff81010004297a-0xffff810100042f71=0x6b
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