Re: tty_ldisc_try_get(): BUG kmalloc-8: Poison overwritten

From: Vegard Nossum
Date: Sun Jun 14 2009 - 19:03:19 EST


2009/6/14 Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Pekka Enberg<penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> You could add something like
>>>
>>> ÂWARN_ON(ld->refcount == 0x6b)
>>>
>>> to tty_ldisc_deref() to see if that triggers.
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Pekka Enberg<penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Make that
>>
>> Â ÂWARN_ON(ld->refcount == (int)0xa56b6b6b)
>>
>> instead.
>
> And oh, kmemcheck should be able to catch this too. :-)
>

I was able to get this trace:

(none) login: [ 867.947401] WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read
from freed memory (469e2f44)
[ 867.962162] 00000000020000000038bf41020000000038bf41020000000038bf4102000000
[ 868.012078] i i i i f f f f i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i
[ 868.061629] ^
[ 868.067686]
[ 868.071709] Pid: 1857, comm: getty Not tainted (2.6.30 #416)
[ 868.082651] EIP: 0060:[<414772ea>] EFLAGS: 00000002 CPU: 0
[ 868.095379] EIP is at tty_ldisc_deref+0x1a/0x70
[ 868.103757] EAX: 00000216 EBX: 469e2f40 ECX: 414772e8 EDX: 41bf3870
[ 868.115752] ESI: 00000216 EDI: 4766483c EBP: 46f37f3c ESP: 41e22450
[ 868.131343] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
[ 868.141609] CR0: 8005003b CR2: 47806e04 CR3: 06b6b000 CR4: 00000690
[ 868.155263] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
[ 868.167168] DR6: 00004000 DR7: 00000000
[ 868.175228] [<4146f26d>] tty_read+0x8d/0xc0
[ 868.184598] [<410ca219>] vfs_read+0x99/0x180
[ 868.196380] [<410ca3bd>] sys_read+0x3d/0x70
[ 868.206936] [<41003a6f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x3c
[ 868.219746] [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

Thats:

drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c:366
drivers/char/tty_io.c:896

I also saw this a couple of times (it's not my printk):

[ 1266.934668] tty_ldisc_deref: no references.
[ 1267.531655] tty_ldisc_deref: no references.
[ 1267.790096] tty_ldisc_deref: no references.


Vegard
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