Re: [bug] SLOB crash, 2.6.24-rc2

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 11:36:11AM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:20:01PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > there's a new SLOB regression - the attached config crashes with:
> > 
> > [   61.245190] rc.sysinit used greatest stack depth: 1680 bytes left
> > [   61.386859] list_add corruption. prev->next should be next (407d973c), but was 418cf818. (prev=41877098).
> > [   61.396328] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > [   61.400910] kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:33!
> > [   61.405330] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> > 
> > looks like memory corruption of some sort and it's reproducible. Picking 
> > CONFIG_SLUB makes the crash go away. Booting v2.6.23 with the same 
> > .config works fine.
> 
> Hmmm, the changes in SLOB since v2.6.23 are all trivial. I'll try to
> reproduce it with your config, but it doesn't seem promising.

Couldn't reproduce it here, let me know if you get anywhere with your bisect.

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