From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sasha Levin Subject: Re: [BUG] 3.2-rc2: BUG kmalloc-8: Redzone overwritten Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:22:47 +0200 Message-ID: <1321870967.8173.1.camel@lappy> References: <1321866845.3831.7.camel@lappy> <1321870529.2552.19.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> <1321870915.2552.22.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: David Miller , Matt Mackall , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , linux-mm , linux-kernel , netdev To: Eric Dumazet Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1321870915.2552.22.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 11:21 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Le lundi 21 novembre 2011 =E0 11:15 +0100, Eric Dumazet a =E9crit : >=20 > >=20 > > Hmm, trinity tries to crash decnet ;) > >=20 > > Maybe we should remove this decnet stuff for good instead of tracking > > all bugs just for the record. Is there anybody still using decnet ? > >=20 > > For example dn_start_slow_timer() starts a timer without holding a > > reference on struct sock, this is highly suspect. > >=20 > > [PATCH] decnet: proper socket refcounting > >=20 > > Better use sk_reset_timer() / sk_stop_timer() helpers to make sure we > > dont access already freed/reused memory later. > >=20 > > Reported-by: Sasha Levin > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet >=20 > Hmm, I forgot to remove the sock_hold(sk) call from dn_slow_timer(), > here is V2 : >=20 > [PATCH] decnet: proper socket refcounting >=20 > Better use sk_reset_timer() / sk_stop_timer() helpers to make sure we > dont access already freed/reused memory later. >=20 > Reported-by: Sasha Levin > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet > --- [snip] Applied locally and running same tests as before, will update with results. --=20 Sasha. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter= .ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org