Hi Russell, You commit is so good at catching errors! commit c817a67ecba7c3c2aaa104796d78f160af60920d Author: Russell King Date: Thu Jun 27 15:06:14 2013 +0100 kobject: delayed kobject release: help find buggy drivers Here is another one, full dmesg attached. modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.11.0-rc6-next-20130822-07070-g245f086/modules.dep: No such file or directory [ 4.993719] ============================================================================= [ 4.994014] BUG kmalloc-512 (Not tainted): Poison overwritten [ 4.994014] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint [ 4.994014] INFO: 0x78094c00-0x78094c03. First byte 0x68 instead of 0x6b [ 4.994014] INFO: Allocated in kzalloc.constprop.12+0xd/0xf age=888 cpu=0 pid=1 [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] INFO: Freed in cpuid4_cache_sysfs_exit+0x30/0x8c age=223 cpu=1 pid=1 [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] [ 4.994014] INFO: Slab 0x866a0720 objects=23 used=23 fp=0x (null) flags=0x4080 [ 4.994014] INFO: Object 0x78094ac0 @offset=2752 fp=0x (null) git bisect start 5e8d1acd05687720cbb0b08975eacb7588fdfc42 v3.10 -- git bisect good 8cbd0eefcaf8cc32ded2bf229f0fc379b2ad69f2 # 13:42 55+ Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux git bisect good 60a2b977533c312d271563d955ef7b8e35a6aa38 # 14:47 55+ Merge remote-tracking branch 'infiniband/for-next' git bisect bad 4a225b466e040a70e7d12b159d2a36da1c2ef7dc # 14:57 0- next-20130821/driver-core git bisect good 98246c1ae6f18fe1b710cdff687b6b7077f739c9 # 15:27 55+ Merge remote-tracking branch 'virtio/virtio-next' git bisect good 38136c1f1471c7dcbe889beb790cc4d331e9d3ad # 18:45 55+ Merge remote-tracking branch 'spi/for-next' git bisect good f07762be3b9222a7649cb29a3f5b959204d40446 # 19:17 55+ Merge branch 'x86/asmlinkage' git bisect good 93d6294dfcdff81194086ed9bd6ceca3bc5e5863 # 22:17 55+ Merge remote-tracking branch 'kvm-ppc/kvm-ppc-next' git bisect good c57e8c89b271af4ef914c439effffed53c39434c # 01:28 55+ Merge remote-tracking branch 'leds/for-next' git bisect bad 76f411fb3a62711de7f59e0f4c56456fe356675a # 01:40 0- x86 / cpu topology: remove the stale macro arch_provides_topology_pointers git bisect bad ea1bb7064fd6972ef00a93ba882a2f38450b273e # 01:47 0- video: backlight: convert class code to use dev_groups git bisect good e56341ad380114454119ac043e6d710ddbbb7710 # 09:41 55+ staging: comedi: convert class code to use dev_groups git bisect bad c817a67ecba7c3c2aaa104796d78f160af60920d # 10:20 0- kobject: delayed kobject release: help find buggy drivers git bisect good 7c42721fe0c58a848849b43ff558cf2fb86aa35a # 13:57 55+ char: tile-srom: fix build error git bisect good 7c42721fe0c58a848849b43ff558cf2fb86aa35a # 17:36 165+ char: tile-srom: fix build error git bisect bad 245f08699d5320f021070ed8698ac89ebf2f0670 # 17:36 0- Add linux-next specific files for 20130822 git bisect good 754ad8d4fe504c68d209749f5c49b578d68a0106 # 18:42 165+ Revert "kobject: delayed kobject release: help find buggy drivers" git bisect good d8dfad3876e4386666b759da3c833d62fb8b2267 # 03:59 165+ Linux 3.11-rc7 git bisect bad 245f08699d5320f021070ed8698ac89ebf2f0670 # 03:59 0- Add linux-next specific files for 20130822 Thanks, Fengguang