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From: michi1@michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com (Michael Blizek)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Interpreting call trace
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 18:47:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110406164746.GA2095@michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=hNu5NV_6e+4Vg0wc1j0ySsDJJdg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi!

On 15:56 Wed 06 Apr     , Daniel Baluta wrote:
...
> For example having:
> [ 3992.316/0]  [<ffffffff81297751>] ? neigh_create+0x2f1/0x6b0
> [ 3992.321/0]  [<ffffffff81374f00>] ? _read_unlock_bh+0x10/0x20
> 
> means that _read_unlock_bh has been called & finished ? Or it has been
> interrupted by
> next function in trace (neigh_create).
> 
> Any other info about interpreting call traces are welcomed.

Usually this means that _read_unlock_bh has called neigh_create. However, this
looks very unlikely to me. So maybe there was a buffer overflow on the stack
or any other form of memory corruption.

	-Michi
-- 
programing a layer 3+4 network protocol for mesh networks
see http://michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-06 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-06 12:56 Interpreting call trace Daniel Baluta
2011-04-06 16:47 ` Michael Blizek [this message]
2011-04-06 17:32 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-04-07  3:10 ` Kaustubh Ashtekar
2011-04-07  8:26   ` Daniel Baluta
2011-04-07  9:16     ` nilesh
2011-04-07  9:34     ` Sowmya Sridharan
2011-04-07 17:04     ` Manish Katiyar

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