Re: ath5k misbehaving affecting other kernel parts unrelated?

[Pedro Francisco <pedrogfrancisco@gmail.com>]

A Sexta, 23 de Abril de 2010 17:37:03 me@bobcopeland.com escreveu:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 09:48:23AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > > a) is it "normal"? I thought modules were somewhat isolated these days.
> > > b) any advices for debugging? I've yet to have two oopses that are
> > > similar....
> 
> Advice for debugging: turn on slub/slab debug options, and possibly
> kmemcheck.  kmemcheck was very helpful for me last time I had such
> a corruption issue.


For some reason I am unable to get a kernel I compiled to boot. Since I was 
unable to compile the kernel with those debugging options, I just turned on 
slub_debug on GRUB.

I got a few messages which I pasting here only partially to check for their 
significance. If significant I'll post them fully:

[ 2658.663308] 
=============================================================================
[ 2658.663424] BUG kmalloc-4096: Poison overwritten
[ 2658.663483] 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ 2658.663486] 
[ 2658.663606] INFO: 0xed3db0c0-0xed3db0cf. First byte 0xc4 instead of 0x6b
[ 2658.663698] INFO: Allocated in ath_rxbuf_alloc+0x30/0xa0 [ath] age=7117 
cpu=0 pid=0
[ 2658.663799] INFO: Freed in skb_release_data+0x70/0xa0 age=0 cpu=0 pid=0
[ 2658.663882] INFO: Slab 0xc15fbb00 objects=7 used=5 fp=0xed3db090 
flags=0x400040c3
[ 2658.663975] INFO: Object 0xed3db090 @offset=12432 fp=0xed3da060
[ 2658.663977] 
[ 2658.664069] Bytes b4 0xed3db080:  00 00 00 00 61 ff 08 00 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 
5a 5a ....a<FF>..ZZZZZZZZ
[ 2658.664258]   Object 0xed3db090:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 
6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

(a lot of lines with memory contents omitted)

[ 2658.667258]  Redzone 0xed3dc090:  bb bb bb bb                                     
<BB><BB><BB><BB>            
[ 2658.667258]  Padding 0xed3dc0b8:  5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a                         
ZZZZZZZZ        
[ 2658.667258] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu
[ 2658.667258] Call Trace:
[ 2658.667258]  [<c01faf63>] print_trailer+0xd3/0x120
[ 2658.667258]  [<c01fb07c>] check_bytes_and_report+0xcc/0xf0
[ 2658.667258]  [<c01fc021>] check_object+0x1a1/0x1e0
[ 2658.667258]  [<c01fcc98>] alloc_debug_processing+0xc8/0x190
(...)


[ 2658.667258] FIX kmalloc-4096: Restoring 0xed3db0c0-0xed3db0cf=0x6b
[ 2658.667258] 
[ 2658.667258] FIX kmalloc-4096: Marking all objects used
[ 4689.941595] 


And I've two or three more similar messages. The system was apparently stable 
in the morning though I had an error on the console:

[24370.460011] Pid: 2011, comm: kismet_server Not tainted 2.6.32-21-generic 
#32-Ubuntu
[24370.460011] Call Trace:
(...)


The latest daily from Ubuntu PPA wouldn't boot, the one from 2 or 3 days ago 
did, if needed I can install that one.


Were those lines significant and shall I post them here?


Thank you for your time,
-- 
Pedro