Re: [BUG] 3.2-rc2: BUG kmalloc-8: Redzone overwritten

[Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 11:21 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le lundi 21 novembre 2011 a 11:15 +0100, Eric Dumazet a ecrit :
> 
> > 
> > Hmm, trinity tries to crash decnet ;)
> > 
> > Maybe we should remove this decnet stuff for good instead of tracking
> > all bugs just for the record. Is there anybody still using decnet ?
> > 
> > For example dn_start_slow_timer() starts a timer without holding a
> > reference on struct sock, this is highly suspect.
> > 
> > [PATCH] decnet: proper socket refcounting
> > 
> > Better use sk_reset_timer() / sk_stop_timer() helpers to make sure we
> > dont access already freed/reused memory later.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> 
> Hmm, I forgot to remove the sock_hold(sk) call from dn_slow_timer(),
> here is V2 :
> 
> [PATCH] decnet: proper socket refcounting
> 
> Better use sk_reset_timer() / sk_stop_timer() helpers to make sure we
> dont access already freed/reused memory later.
> 
> Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> ---

[snip]

Applied locally and running same tests as before, will update with
results.

-- 

Sasha.

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