From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Subject: [Bug 99051] general protection fault in ext4_htree_store_dirent Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 23:08:32 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.136]:50235 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752310AbbE0XIf (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2015 19:08:35 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F77C20701 for ; Wed, 27 May 2015 23:08:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bugzilla1.web.kernel.org (bugzilla1.web.kernel.org [172.20.200.51]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBCBF206F6 for ; Wed, 27 May 2015 23:08:32 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99051 Theodore Tso changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |tytso@mit.edu --- Comment #1 from Theodore Tso --- The failure is inside kmalloc(), which implies that the internal slab data structures were corrupted (i.e., caused by a double free, buffer overrun, etc.). So the bug might not be in ext4 --- it's just that ext4 happened to trip over the corrupted data structures. Can you reproduce the crash at all? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.