From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: [bug, netconsole, SLUB] BUG skbuff_head_cache: Poison overwritten
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:48:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4880AD35.6080506@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020807180744w40677f6dm790d2caee3ca0d15@mail.gmail.com>
Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Yeah. See the free_debug_processing() function in mm/slub.c for
> details (the on_freelist() part). However, if you look at slab_free()
> you can see that in the SLUB fast-path we don't do any of these
> debugging checks. So you can end up with slab corruption without a
> nice error message.
The slub fastpath is not used when debugging is enabled.
Without debugging on double frees will typically corrupt the freepointer. So you get an invalid pointer reference in __slab_free.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-18 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-17 21:42 [bug, netconsole, SLUB] BUG skbuff_head_cache: Poison overwritten Ingo Molnar
2008-07-17 21:45 ` David Miller
2008-07-17 22:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-17 22:09 ` David Miller
2008-07-17 22:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-17 23:15 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-17 23:35 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-17 23:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-18 0:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-18 0:05 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-18 0:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-18 2:13 ` David Miller
2008-07-18 2:03 ` David Miller
2008-07-18 7:03 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-18 7:12 ` David Miller
2008-07-18 9:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-18 19:10 ` [bug] Attempt to release alive inet socket f6fac040 Ingo Molnar
2008-07-18 19:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-17 23:27 ` [bug, netconsole, SLUB] BUG skbuff_head_cache: Poison overwritten Vegard Nossum
2008-07-17 23:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-21 11:41 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-18 5:46 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-07-18 9:02 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-07-18 9:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-18 9:15 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-07-18 10:16 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-07-18 14:44 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-07-18 14:48 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2008-07-18 16:07 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-07-18 9:00 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-07-18 9:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-18 9:16 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-07-18 13:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-07-21 9:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-21 9:52 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-07-21 10:06 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-07-21 10:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-21 11:03 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-21 11:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-21 16:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-07-21 20:23 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-21 11:25 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-07-21 11:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-21 12:57 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-07-21 14:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-21 19:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-21 21:24 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-07-21 23:33 ` David Miller
2008-07-22 7:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-22 13:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-23 22:31 ` David Miller
2008-07-23 22:40 ` Jeff Kirsher
2008-07-21 16:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-07-21 19:57 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-07-21 20:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-21 20:22 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-07-18 13:55 ` Christoph Lameter
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