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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: axboe@suse.de, piggin@cyberone.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test8, DEBUG_SLAB, oops in as_latter_request()
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 14:20:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031019142042.2f41eb68.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ismlovep.fsf@p4.localdomain>

Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> wrote:
>
> I was running 2.6.0-test8 compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y. When
>  testing the CDRW packet writing driver, I got an oops in
>  as_latter_request. (Full oops at the end of this message.) It is
>  repeatable and happens because arq->rb_node.rb_right is uninitialized.

deadline seems to have the same problem.

We may as well squish this with the big hammer?

 drivers/block/as-iosched.c       |    1 +
 drivers/block/deadline-iosched.c |    1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff -puN drivers/block/as-iosched.c~iosched-oops-fixes drivers/block/as-iosched.c
--- 25/drivers/block/as-iosched.c~iosched-oops-fixes	2003-10-19 14:17:39.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/block/as-iosched.c	2003-10-19 14:18:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -1718,6 +1718,7 @@ static int as_set_request(request_queue_
 	struct as_rq *arq = mempool_alloc(ad->arq_pool, gfp_mask);
 
 	if (arq) {
+		memset(arq, 0, sizeof(*arq));
 		RB_CLEAR(&arq->rb_node);
 		arq->request = rq;
 		arq->state = AS_RQ_NEW;
diff -puN drivers/block/deadline-iosched.c~iosched-oops-fixes drivers/block/deadline-iosched.c
--- 25/drivers/block/deadline-iosched.c~iosched-oops-fixes	2003-10-19 14:17:39.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/block/deadline-iosched.c	2003-10-19 14:17:39.000000000 -0700
@@ -775,6 +775,7 @@ deadline_set_request(request_queue_t *q,
 
 	drq = mempool_alloc(dd->drq_pool, gfp_mask);
 	if (drq) {
+		memset(drq, 0, sizeof(*drq));
 		RB_CLEAR(&drq->rb_node);
 		drq->request = rq;
 

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-19 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-19 19:54 2.6.0-test8, DEBUG_SLAB, oops in as_latter_request() Peter Osterlund
2003-10-19 21:20 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-10-20  0:25   ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-20  7:09     ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-20  8:08       ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-20 19:37     ` Peter Osterlund

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