Re: Warnings and Oops on 2.6.23-rc6 while activily using rfcommlinks (mm/slab.c)

From: Cornelia Huck
Date: Fri Sep 28 2007 - 02:55:33 EST


On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:07:54 +0200,
Pierre-Yves Paulus <py@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Another one below, complete log from power-up to reboot, with some bugs
> and one Oops. I only trimmed the numerous "l2cap_recv_acldata" and "ACL
> packet for unknown connection handle" lines which always fill up the log.

Hmm, looked at it, but currently I can't see what's wrong from a driver
core perspective...


> =============================================================================
> BUG kmalloc-128: Poison overwritten
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> INFO: 0xc5734f28-0xc5734f40. First byte 0x6a instead of 0x6b
> INFO: Allocated in rfcomm_dev_ioctl+0xbd/0x4e6 [rfcomm] age=6110 cpu=0
> pid=3677
> INFO: Freed in rfcomm_dev_destruct+0x59/0x65 [rfcomm] age=3157 cpu=0
> pid=3927
> INFO: Slab 0xc10ae680 used=21 fp=0xc5734f20 flags=0x400000c2
> INFO: Object 0xc5734f20 @offset=3872 fp=0xc57342c0
>
> Bytes b4 0xc5734f10: 05 00 00 00 f8 23 0f 00 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a
> ....ø#..ZZZZZZZZ
> Object 0xc5734f20: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
^^

This looks suspiciously like someone tried to decrease a refcount on a
freed kobject. Unfortunately, we only see this after the fact with slub
debugging turned on :( So could you please turn it off again (but leave
kobject debugging on) and try with the following silly debug patch:

---
lib/kobject.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.orig/lib/kobject.c
+++ linux-2.6/lib/kobject.c
@@ -502,8 +502,12 @@ static void kobject_release(struct kref
*/
void kobject_put(struct kobject * kobj)
{
- if (kobj)
+ if (kobj) {
+ if (!atomic_read(&kobj->kref.refcount))
+ pr_debug("%s: kobject %s@%p already has zero refcount!\n",
+ __FUNCTION__, kobj->name, kobj);
kref_put(&kobj->kref, kobject_release);
+ }
}


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