Re: dell_smbios KASAN bug

From: Tom Zanussi
Date: Wed Mar 20 2019 - 16:44:36 EST


On Wed, 2019-03-20 at 16:32 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:28:56 -0500
> Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > > Unfortunately, no.
> > >
> > > That's really weird. I would recommend throwing in a bunch of
> > > printks
> > > to see if things are being freed and set, to make sure this code
> > > is
> > > hit
> > > and something else isn't just corrupting it.
> > >
> >
> > Actually the patch does make the KASAN bug go away - I'm so used to
> > building without modules that I forgot to rebuild the module after
> > applying the patch, sigh.
>
> I wasn't about to say anything. That's why I suggested adding printks
> and trying it again ;-)
>

Yeah, when a simple printk doesn't work, you know there's something
idiotic going on. Thanks for the tip ;-)

Tom

> -- Steve