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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>,
	e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [1/3] 2.6.21-rc6: known regressions
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:39:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070420133952.GA17749@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070414062143.GA12707@elte.hu>


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> > The 6b6b6b6b pattern is POISON_FREE, implying some kind of slab 
> > misuse, most likely a use-after-free, although possibly just due to 
> > overrunning a slab into the next one or something like that.
> 
> unfortunately, while being at -rc6 based kernel #445 meanwhile, this 
> incident was the only time i saw this problem. [...]

meanwhile i'm at kernel bootup #657, and still this crash did not 
reoccur. So it could have been some pre-existing sysfs bug that triggers 
only extremely rarely. I'd suggest that this bug have its priority 
lowered (to not hold up a v2.6.21 release) - there's no smoking gun and 
no reproducer. I'll keep an eye on it.

	Ingo

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-20 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704051944230.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-06 21:40 ` tg3: unable to handle null pointer dereference [Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc6] Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-04-06 22:57   ` Michael Chan
2007-04-07  0:36     ` tg3: unable to handle null pointer dereference David Miller
2007-04-07  1:53       ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-04-14  0:36 ` [1/3] 2.6.21-rc6: known regressions Adrian Bunk
2007-04-14  1:34   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-14  1:49     ` Brandeburg, Jesse
2007-04-14  4:25     ` David Miller
2007-04-14  5:07     ` Ian McDonald
2007-04-14  5:29     ` David Miller
2007-04-14  6:21     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-14  7:25       ` Greg KH
2007-04-20 13:39       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-04-20 13:46     ` Ingo Molnar

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