From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67E276B0069 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 05:24:59 -0500 (EST) Received: by faas10 with SMTP id s10so7668151faa.14 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:24:56 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [BUG] 3.2-rc2: BUG kmalloc-8: Redzone overwritten From: Sasha Levin In-Reply-To: <1321870915.2552.22.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> References: <1321866845.3831.7.camel@lappy> <1321870529.2552.19.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> <1321870915.2552.22.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:22:47 +0200 Message-ID: <1321870967.8173.1.camel@lappy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Eric Dumazet Cc: David Miller , Matt Mackall , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , linux-mm , linux-kernel , netdev 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 > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet > > 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 > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet > --- [snip] Applied locally and running same tests as before, will update with results. -- Sasha. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org