Re: kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3338! RIP [<ffffffff8117912c>] kfree+0x20c/0x210

On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:

This VM got quite some I/O and network load, it got a lot of large files
transferred to Samba and the files are stored on a glusterfs volume (by
tcp/ip).

That looks like its related to networking. CCing netdev.

[34856.970314] =============================================================================
[34856.970332] BUG kmalloc-2048 (Not tainted): Poison overwritten
[34856.970339] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[34856.970339]
[34856.970350] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[34856.970357] INFO: 0xffff88001b36099b-0xffff88001b36099b. First byte 0x6a instead of 0x6b
[34856.970371] INFO: Allocated in __alloc_skb+0x82/0x290 age=2 cpu=0 pid=2818
[34856.970381]  __slab_alloc.isra.57+0x61e/0x6d6
[34856.970389]  __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0xc9/0x1b0
[34856.970396]  __kmalloc_reserve.isra.49+0x37/0xa0
[34856.970402]  __alloc_skb+0x82/0x290
[34856.970408]  sk_stream_alloc_skb+0x3f/0x120
[34856.970414]  tcp_sendmsg+0x615/0xe20
[34856.970419]  inet_sendmsg+0xa6/0x100
[34856.970426]  sock_aio_write+0xc2/0xe0
[34856.970433]  do_sync_readv_writev+0x4e/0x80
[34856.970439]  do_readv_writev+0xe8/0x270
[34856.970444]  vfs_writev+0x30/0x60
[34856.970449]  SyS_writev+0x54/0xd0
[34856.970454]  system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[34856.970461] INFO: Freed in skb_free_head+0x64/0x70 age=2 cpu=0 pid=0
[34856.970468]  __slab_free+0x30/0x561
[34856.970474]  kfree+0x1fd/0x210
[34856.970479]  skb_free_head+0x64/0x70
[34856.970484]  skb_release_data+0xf3/0x100
[34856.970492]  skb_release_all+0x23/0x30
[34856.970497]  __kfree_skb+0x11/0xa0
[34856.970503]  tcp_ack+0x64a/0xf20
[34856.970509]  tcp_rcv_established+0xe2/0x5c0
[34856.970515]  tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x14e/0x4a0
[34856.970520]  tcp_v4_rcv+0x8f2/0x9c0
[34856.970527]  ip_local_deliver_finish+0xd8/0x1d0
[34856.970533]  ip_local_deliver+0x34/0x90
[34856.970539]  ip_rcv_finish+0x150/0x660
[34856.970544]  ip_rcv+0x22b/0x370
[34856.970551]  __netif_receive_skb_core+0x6e2/0x8b0
[34856.970557]  __netif_receive_skb+0x1c/0x70
[34856.970563] INFO: Slab 0xffffea00006cd800 objects=13 used=13 fp=0x          (null) flags=0x40000000004080
[34856.970572] INFO: Object 0xffff88001b360948 @offset=2376 fp=0xffff88001b3637b0
[34856.970572]

The rest is in the attached dmesg.

attached: dmesg-oops-3.12.0-20131104.txt
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Sander