Re: 2.6.9-rc1: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:1828 (sunrpc)

[Neil Brown]

On Thursday August 26, fork0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I get this running X and some gnome applications for a while (~10sec).
> After the bug, keyboard stays locked, mouse (usb) works, and I can
> finish the session. It brings me to a blank console:
> 
>     kernel:  <6>SysRq : Emergency Sync
>     kernel: Emergency Sync complete
>     gconfd (raa-3333): Received signal 1, shutting down cleanly
>     gconfd (raa-3333): Exiting
>     init: open(/dev/console): Input/output error
> 
> Ctrl-Alt-Del worked, though:
> 
>     init: Switching to runlevel: 6
> 
> It is reproducable with latest bk as of Aug 26 20:00 CET.
> The system is ht/smt P4 with preempt, Gentoo (no hotplug and udev).
> 
> There is a suspect:
>     struct auth_domain *auth_unix_lookup(struct in_addr addr)
> 	    ...
> 	    key.m_class = "nfsd";
> 	    key.m_addr = addr;
> 
> And ip_map_put contains a "kfree(im->m_class)".
> I wasn't able to reproduce the bug after removing the kfree.
> The strdups to m_class will leak now, I suppose.

Yep, thanks.
Andrew has received a patch so it should be fixed in the next
release.  For now, removing the "kfree" is safe enough.

NeilBrown
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