From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: [patch] slub crashes with recent -git
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:42:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070719194234.GA27917@elte.hu> (raw)
Linus, Christoph,
recent slub commits in -git cause this bootup crash:
Freeing unused kernel memory: 324k freed
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 1294k
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:2401!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1]
PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c017dac3>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010046 (2.6.22 #1)
EIP is at ksize+0x13/0x42
eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000020 edx: 00000000
esi: f76a4000 edi: 00000004 ebp: f7b11e74 esp: f7b11e74
ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0033 ss: 0068
Process udevd (pid: 824, ti=f7b11000 task=f7ca5000 task.ti=f7b11000)
Stack: f7b11e94 c016c28b f768cb00 00000020 f7ca5000 00000004 f76a4000 fffffff4
f7b11eb4 c03cf158 00000002 f76a4000 00000020 f768cb00 f76a4000 f7b11ed8
f7b11ed0 c03cfbc6 f768cb00 f768cb00 c046bf80 f768cb00 0000000c f7b11f6c
Call Trace:
[<c0105e3e>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x19/0x2e
[<c0105ef0>] show_stack_log_lvl+0x9d/0xa5
[<c010628f>] show_registers+0x1f5/0x334
[<c01064e6>] die+0x118/0x1fc
[<c0426e7f>] do_trap+0x8e/0xa8
[<c0106ac3>] do_invalid_op+0x88/0x92
[<c0426a92>] error_code+0x72/0x78
[<c016c28b>] krealloc+0x27/0x6d
[<c03cf158>] netlink_realloc_groups+0x61/0xd9
[<c03cfbc6>] netlink_bind+0x4f/0x121
[<c03afe8d>] sys_bind+0x67/0x86
[<c03b11e3>] sys_socketcall+0x8f/0x244
[<c0104ef2>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6b/0xb5
=======================
Code: 40 02 00 75 03 8b 52 0c 8b 02 5d 84 c0 b8 00 00 00 00 0f 49 d0 89 d0 c3 55 31 d2 83 f8 10 89 e5 74 34 e8 bc ff ff ff 85 c0 75 04 <0f> 0b eb fe 8b 40 10 85 c0 75 04 0f 0b eb fe 8b 10 f6 c6 0c 74
i had to apply the patch below to make the kernel boot again.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Index: linux/mm/slub.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/mm/slub.c
+++ linux/mm/slub.c
@@ -2394,7 +2394,7 @@ size_t ksize(const void *object)
struct page *page;
struct kmem_cache *s;
- if (object == ZERO_SIZE_PTR)
+ if (object == ZERO_SIZE_PTR || !object)
return 0;
page = get_object_page(object);
next reply other threads:[~2007-07-19 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-19 19:42 Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-07-19 20:09 ` [patch] slub crashes with recent -git Linus Torvalds
2007-07-19 20:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-19 20:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-20 1:23 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-23 20:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-20 17:34 ` Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
2007-07-20 19:30 ` Ingo Molnar
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