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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
To: "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: "Brian Phelps" <lm317t@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Al Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Mikael Pettersson" <mikpe@it.uu.se>,
	"Alexander Shaduri" <ashaduri@gmail.com>,
	"Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:601
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:39:01 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081124083901.4689f301@pedra.chehab.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0811211726h143c83f6obdfcb97e71fa595f@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:26:52 +0100
"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> wrote:

> [Resend with (I hope) working e-mail address for Mauro]
> 
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> [  527.562373]  ffffffff8043b157 0000000000200200 ffffffffa02810d4
> >>> ffff88001e13c600
> >>
> >> LIST_POISON2 on the stack:
> >>
> >> include/linux/poison.h:#define LIST_POISON2  ((void *) 0x00200200)
> >
> > So looking at bttv source code, I wonder what the codes like these are
> > trying to do:
> >
> >                        if (set->top->vb.queue.next)
> >                                list_del(&set->top->vb.queue);
> >
> > Code is ancient, I'll ask Mauro.

Your patch seemed correct. I'll test it later. Better alto to wait for Brian
updates, since I never saw this bug on my environment.

Cheers,
Mauro

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-24 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-18 23:24 kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:601 Brian Phelps
2008-11-19 13:40 ` Brian Phelps
2008-11-19 22:19 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-11-20 17:01   ` Brian Phelps
2008-11-22  1:10     ` Vegard Nossum
2008-11-22  1:25       ` Vegard Nossum
2008-11-22  1:26         ` Vegard Nossum
2008-11-22  1:50           ` Vegard Nossum
2008-11-22 11:20             ` [PATCH] bttv: don't compare list_head's .next with NULL Vegard Nossum
2008-11-24 17:13               ` Brian Phelps
2008-11-24 10:39           ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]

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