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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Roland Dreier <roland.list@gmail.com>,
	Tziporet Koren <tziporet@mellanox.co.il>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
	general@lists.openfabrics.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: lockdep question (was Re: IPoIB caused a kernel: BUG: softlockup detected on CPU#0!)
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:51:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070312135112.GA18158@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070312132826.GB20549@mellanox.co.il>


* Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il> wrote:

> > could you turn on CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG as well?
> > 
> > that should catch certain types of use-after-free accesses, and 
> > lockdep will also warn if a still locked object is freed.
> 
> Hmm, no, this does not look like use-after-free. I enabled 
> CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG, and I still see the same message, so the memory was 
> not overwritten by slab debugger.

that's still not conclusive - the memory might not have been allocated 
by slab again to detect it. Your magic-number check definitely shows 
some sort of corruption going on, right?

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-12 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <45E552FC.4040305@mellanox.co.il>
     [not found] ` <f8ca0a150703030937u61bcd9aj200415b76c00d151@mail.gmail.com>
2007-03-11 13:50   ` lockdep question (was Re: IPoIB caused a kernel: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!) Michael S. Tsirkin
2007-03-11 15:04     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2007-03-11 15:22       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2007-03-11 19:19       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-11 15:25     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-03-11 16:12       ` lockdep question (was Re: IPoIB caused a kernel: BUG: softlockup " Michael S. Tsirkin
2007-03-11 18:48         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-12 13:29           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2007-03-12 13:51             ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-03-12 14:20               ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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