namespaces?: bug at mm/slub.c:2750

[Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>]

Hi,

with todays -git i get the following bug when i reboot the machine

[   94.369135] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   94.369344] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:2750!
[   94.369463] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[   94.369828] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pnp0/00:0c/id
[   94.369952] Modules linked in:
[   94.370035] 
[   94.370035] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted
(2.6.29-rc3-00653-g8285bbf #240) System Name
[   94.370035] EIP: 0060:[<c018340b>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0
[   94.370035] EIP is at kfree+0x3c/0xe4
[   94.370035] EAX: 00000400 EBX: c1139000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: c09fb204
[   94.370035] ESI: c114cf60 EDI: c09fb204 EBP: c0ab0f94 ESP: c0ab0f80
[   94.370035]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
[   94.370035] Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c0ab0000 task=c09f23ac
task.ti=c0a50000)
[   94.370035] Stack:
[   94.370035]  c0ab0f94 00000286 c09fb204 c014e784 00000020 c0ab0fa0
c014e79c c09fb204
[   94.370035]  c0ab0fb0 c04dca32 cede1240 00000282 c0ab0fc4 c01297d1
c012c8aa cf9e4dc0
[   94.370035]  cf9e4e20 c0ab0fd0 c0135b0d 00000000 c0ab0fe0 c015a783
00000100 00000001
[   94.370035] Call Trace:
[   94.370035]  [<c014e784>] ? free_user_ns+0x0/0x1b
[   94.370035]  [<c014e79c>] ? free_user_ns+0x18/0x1b
[   94.370035]  [<c04dca32>] ? kref_put+0x3b/0x49
[   94.370035]  [<c01297d1>] ? free_uid+0x49/0xa4
[   94.370035]  [<c012c8aa>] ? groups_free+0x31/0x35
[   94.370035]  [<c0135b0d>] ? put_cred_rcu+0x52/0x63
[   94.370035]  [<c015a783>] ? rcu_process_callbacks+0x60/0x74
[   94.370035]  [<c0125af2>] ? __do_softirq+0x6a/0xf1
[   94.370035]  [<c0125a88>] ? __do_softirq+0x0/0xf1
[   94.370035]  <IRQ> <0> [<c01598a8>] ? handle_level_irq+0x0/0xbc
[   94.370035]  [<c0125a0a>] ? irq_exit+0x3b/0x77
[   94.370035]  [<c010411d>] ? do_IRQ+0xdc/0xf3
[   94.370035]  [<c010340c>] ? common_interrupt+0x2c/0x34
[   94.370035]  [<c013007b>] ? param_array_set+0x18/0xc6
[   94.370035]  [<c051f5d2>] ? acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x167/0x1d1
[   94.370035]  [<c062c69d>] ? cpuidle_idle_call+0x57/0x8e
[   94.370035]  [<c01019eb>] ? cpu_idle+0x59/0x86
[   94.370035]  [<c077a585>] ? rest_init+0x61/0x63
[   94.370035] Code: 00 00 00 8b 1d e4 0f 03 c1 e8 fb f3 f8 ff c1 e8 0c
c1 e0 05 8d 34 03 f6 46 01 40 74 03 8b 76 0c 8b 06 84 c0 78 15 f6 c4 60
75 04 <0f> 0b eb fe 89 f0 e8 90 7a fe ff e9 90 00 00 00 8b 45 04 89 45 
[   94.370035] EIP: [<c018340b>] kfree+0x3c/0xe4 SS:ESP 0068:c0ab0f80
[   94.383497] ---[ end trace 4779637014de8de6 ]---
[   94.383620] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

The bug triggered is BUG_ON(!PageCompound(page)) in kfree();

(gdb) l *(free_user_ns+0x0)
0xc014e784 is in free_user_ns (kernel/user_namespace.c:64).
59	
60		return 0;
61	}
62	
63	void free_user_ns(struct kref *kref)
64	{
65		struct user_namespace *ns;
66	
67		ns = container_of(kref, struct user_namespace, kref);
68		free_uid(ns->creator);
(gdb) l *(groups_free)
0xc012c879 is in groups_free (kernel/sys.c:1160).
1155	}
1156	
1157	EXPORT_SYMBOL(groups_alloc);
1158	
1159	void groups_free(struct group_info *group_info)
1160	{
1161		if (group_info->blocks[0] != group_info->small_block) {
1162			int i;
1163			for (i = 0; i < group_info->nblocks; i++)
1164				free_page((unsigned
long)group_info->blocks[i]);


Greetings, Eric