From: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: NULL pointer in kmem_cache_alloc with 2.6.25-rc1
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:14:11 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1203390851.3248.14.camel@ymzhang> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080218085229.3fe9649c@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 08:52 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:59:18 -0800
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:47:01 +0800 "Zhang, Yanmin"
> > <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Call Trace:
> > > [<ffffffff805e0024>] ? __alloc_skb+0x31/0x121
> > > [<ffffffff805dc389>] ? sock_alloc_send_skb+0x77/0x1d2
> > > [<ffffffff80243897>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
> > > [<ffffffff805e12d5>] ? memcpy_fromiovec+0x36/0x66
> > > [<ffffffff80636ec0>] ? unix_stream_sendmsg+0x165/0x333
> > > [<ffffffff805d9863>] ? sock_aio_write+0xd1/0xe0
> > > [<ffffffff80227834>] ? __wake_up_common+0x41/0x74
> > > [<ffffffff8027d267>] ? do_sync_write+0xc9/0x10c
> > > [<ffffffff80265fbb>] ? __do_fault+0x382/0x3cd
> > > [<ffffffff80243897>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
> > > [<ffffffff80268840>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x38a/0x70d
> > > [<ffffffff806afd39>] ? error_exit+0x0/0x51
> > > [<ffffffff80228008>] ? __dequeue_entity+0x1c/0x32
> > > [<ffffffff8027d9bb>] ? vfs_write+0xc0/0x136
> > > [<ffffffff8027dee5>] ? sys_write+0x45/0x6e
> > > [<ffffffff8020bdcb>] ? system_call_after_swapgs+0x7b/0x80
> >
> > off-topic, but... Why are all the backtrace decodes here marked as
> > being unreliable?
At least ffffffff80279948 is correct. The register values and ip address looks like
matching the disassembled codes.
>
> probably because the stack is a tad confused, so the back tracer doesn't see
> even a single good stack frame.
>
> Is CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER on?
No.
With 2.6.25-rc2, 3 x86-64 machines hit the same issue.
-yanmin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-19 3:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-15 6:47 NULL pointer in kmem_cache_alloc with 2.6.25-rc1 Zhang, Yanmin
2008-02-15 16:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-19 7:03 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-02-19 7:38 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-27 22:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-18 12:59 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-18 16:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-19 3:14 ` Zhang, Yanmin [this message]
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