From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263285AbTJKNhI (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:37:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263288AbTJKNhI (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:37:08 -0400 Received: from bristol.phunnypharm.org ([65.207.35.130]:65233 "EHLO bristol.phunnypharm.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263285AbTJKNhG (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:37:06 -0400 Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:31:14 -0400 From: Ben Collins To: Zwane Mwaikambo Cc: John Mock , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: slab corruption of hpsb_packet from ohci1394 + sbp2 on 2.6.0-test7 Message-ID: <20031011133114.GW552@phunnypharm.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Any clues on how to track this problem down would be greatly appreciated! > > (Please CC: such replies, as i'm reading via WWW rather than subscribing.) > > The state change synchronization is rather weird in that driver, then > there is the whole double semaphore acquisition business which i'm not > quite sure of. It looks better suited to a struct completion, but that is > the source of your problem. This would be better handled by the > maintainer. FYI, the semaphore is being removed and things are better handled now. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/