Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> On 3/7/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > And since 2.6.16-rc5-git8 is not experiencing problems I'd suggest you
> > >  perhaps instead take a look at what's in -mm... That's where we need
> > >  to work (it seems) to find the bug...
> >
> > Yes, it's very probably something in git-scsi-misc.
> >
> I would say that's correct. I just build 2.6.16-rc5-mm2 with just
> git-scsi-misc.patch reverted, and that makes the problem go away.

Ok. I was kind of hoping that it was just a more reliable case of the 
corruption that Andrew had been seeing too (which seems to be hard to 
trigger in mainline too, but might exist there).

> So now the big question is; what part(s) of git-scsi-misc is broken?

Well, its origin is actually a git tree, so you could try the "git bisect" 
approach using the

	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git

tree that the patch comes from..

		Linus
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