On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Eric Dumazet<eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We decrement a refcnt while object already freed.
>
> (SLUB DEBUG poisons the zone with 0x6B pattern)
>
> You might add this patch to trigger a WARN_ON when refcnt >= 0x60000000U
> in sk_free() : We'll see the path trying to delete an already freed sock
>
> diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
> index 7633422..1cb85ff 100644
> --- a/net/core/sock.c
> +++ b/net/core/sock.c
> @@ -1058,6 +1058,7 @@ static void __sk_free(struct sock *sk)
>
>  void sk_free(struct sock *sk)
>  {
> +       WARN_ON(atomic_read(&sk->sk_wmem_alloc) >= 0x60000000U);
>        /*
>         * We substract one from sk_wmem_alloc and can know if
>        * some packets are still in some tx queue.
>
>

The output of dmesg with this patch appllied is attached.

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Thanks,
Jike