Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 4 authors, 2003-05-12

Re: Slab corruption mm3 + davem fixes

From: David S. Miller <hidden>
Date: 2003-05-11 22:23:54
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On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 15:15, Andrew Morton wrote:
"David S. Miller" [off-list ref] wrote:
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On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 09:21, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
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I am also seeing this on 69-bk (as of Sunday morning)
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On May 10, 2003 11:19 pm, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
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I looked at my logs and found the following error in it.  My kernel is
69-mm3 with two davem fixes on it.
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May 10 22:41:06 oscar kernel: Call Trace:
May 10 22:41:06 oscar kernel:  [__slab_error+30/32] __slab_error+0x1e/0x20
May 10 22:41:06 oscar kernel:  [check_poison_obj+376/384]
check_poison_obj+0x178/0x180 May 10 22:41:06 oscar kernel: 
[kmalloc+221/392] kmalloc+0xdd/0x188 May 10 22:41:06 oscar kernel: 
[alloc_skb+64/240] alloc_skb+0x40/0xf0 May 10 22:41:06 oscar kernel: 
Yeah, more bugs in the NAT netfilter changes.  Debugging this one
patch is becomming a full time job :-(

This should fix it.  Rusty, you're computing checksums and mangling
src/dst using header pointers potentially pointing to free'd skbs.
Did you mean to send a one megabyte diff?
Let's try this again, here is the correct patch :-)



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David S. Miller [off-list ref]

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