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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: kaber@trash.net, davem@davemloft.net,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List"
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Subject: Re: netfilter: Hung task
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:28:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120319002811.GA30408@1984> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+1xoqcQYqCgQb=1M5PVkm=6SBhV2oJxJ2CtBp=gAvZM36Kc2Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:52:55PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:55:13PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I got the following spew after fuzzing using trinity on a KVM tools
> >> guest, using the latest linux-next.
> >>
> >> It reminds me a lot of https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/14/375 and
> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/14/45
> >
> > You mention neither Linux kernel version nor the way you trigger this.
> >
> > With that little information it's really hard to really know.
> 
> Hum? I've mentioned it happened with "the latest linux-next" (which is
> currently two days old), and using the trinity fuzzer - which means
> that I don't have a specific method to reproduce the problem.

Sorry, I should not read my email diagonally, really.

Looking at the trace, I'd point to some problem in the slub memory
allocator. Please, correct me if I'm wrong.

Christoph?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-19  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-18 10:55 netfilter: Hung task Sasha Levin
2012-03-18 14:19 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-03-18 20:52   ` Sasha Levin
2012-03-19  0:28     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2012-03-19 13:56       ` Christoph Lameter
2012-03-19 16:13         ` Sasha Levin
2012-03-19 16:31           ` Christoph Lameter
2012-03-19 16:45             ` Sasha Levin
2012-03-19 20:03               ` Christoph Lameter

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