Mimi, Although this occurs in the xen tree head, it's more likely related to ima_inode_post_setattr(). tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git devel/for-linus-3.8 head: d01b193de1a961e028ee6df5ad0b34c3e56a995f commit: d01b193de1a961e028ee6df5ad0b34c3e56a995f [0/0] xen/acpi: Support ACPI hotplug of CPUs. [ 115.499469] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 2752k [ 134.707390] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 134.707390] kernel BUG at /c/kernel-tests/src/linux/mm/slub.c:3479! [ 134.707390] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] [ 134.707390] Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 3.6.0-00451-gd01b193 #2 Bochs Bochs [ 134.707390] EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00000246 CPU: 0 [ 134.707390] EIP is at kfree+0x2be/0x490 [ 134.707390] EAX: 00000001 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000 [ 134.707390] ESI: cdeef760 EDI: cd83bdac EBP: cd83bd70 ESP: cd83bd50 [ 134.707390] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 [ 134.707390] CR0: 80050033 CR2: b7782000 CR3: 0f9a8000 CR4: 00000690 [ 134.707390] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 [ 134.707390] DR6: 00000000 DR7: 00000000 [ 134.707390] Process init (pid: 1, ti=cd83a000 task=cd838000 task.ti=cd83a000) [ 134.707390] Stack: [ 134.707390] 00000000 cd83bd5c c1085b74 cd83bd88 c1298a5e cd83a000 ffffffc3 cd83bd90 [ 134.707390] cd83bd88 c1298a5e cd83bd90 c1ffdf63 00000001 cd832914 cd83bd98 c1298d4a [ 134.707390] 00000000 00000002 cd83bdac c11e0400 c995c980 cd832914 00000000 cd83bdc4 [ 134.707390] Call Trace: [ 134.707390] [] ? irq_exit+0x74/0x180 [ 134.707390] [] ? __simple_xattr_set+0x28e/0x360 [ 134.707390] [] __simple_xattr_set+0x28e/0x360 [ 134.707390] [] simple_xattr_remove+0x2a/0x40 [ 134.707390] [] shmem_removexattr+0xc0/0x120 [ 134.707390] [] ima_inode_post_setattr+0x21d/0x250 [ 134.707390] [] notify_change+0xb66/0xc40 [ 134.707390] [] do_truncate+0xf8/0x160 [ 134.707390] [] do_last.isra.38+0xb3d/0x1a80 [ 134.707390] [] path_openat+0x3d1/0xd10 [ 134.707390] [] ? note_interrupt+0x4db/0x7f0 [ 134.707390] [] do_filp_open+0x37/0x140 [ 134.707390] [] do_sys_open+0x471/0x630 [ 134.707390] [] ? __find_resource+0x166/0x470 [ 134.707390] [] sys_open+0x3b/0x70 [ 134.707390] [] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x2c [ 134.707390] Code: 89 d0 f3 ff 8b 04 9d 8c a0 2c c2 83 c0 01 85 db 89 04 9d 8c a0 2c c2 0f 84 6a 01 00 00 83 05 a8 4b 61 c2 01 83 15 ac 4b 61 c2 00 <0f> 0b 83 05 b8 4b 61 c2 01 83 15 bc 4b 61 c2 00 83 05 30 4c 61 [ 134.707390] EIP: [] kfree+0x2be/0x490 SS:ESP 0068:cd83bd50 Thanks, Fengguang