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From: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.13-rc3 udev/hotplug use memory after free
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:21:10 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <24487.1122366070@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:01:19 MST." <20050725150119.1c2714f3.akpm@osdl.org>

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:01:19 -0700, 
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
>Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2.6.13-rc3 + kdb (which does not touch udev/hotplug) on IA64 (Altix).
>>  gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux).  Compiled with DEBUG_SLAB,
>>  DEBUG_PREEMPT, DEBUG_SPINLOCK, DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP, DEBUG_KOBJECT.
>> 
>>  There is a use after free somewhere above class_device_attr_show.
>
>Can we obtain a backtrace for this one, Keith?  The function itself is
>pretty innocuous and is used by many callers.  I'd be suspectng a bug in
>the caller.

I no longer have the backtrace.  This 2.6.13-rc3 system has been booted
50+ times (ia64 MCA testing) and only once did it break.  If it recurs, I'll
do some more digging.


      reply	other threads:[~2005-07-26  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-20  5:35 2.6.13-rc3 udev/hotplug use memory after free Keith Owens
2005-07-25 22:01 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-26  8:21   ` Keith Owens [this message]

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