Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Mar 2006 23:14:14 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: yet more slab corruption. |
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Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote: > > Garg. Is there no end to these ? > That kernel is based off 2.6.16rc5-git8 > > This brings the current count up to 8 different patterns filed > against our 2.6.16rc tree in Fedora bugzilla. > (One of them doesn't count as it's against the out-of-tree bcm43xx driver). >
A use-after-free on size-2048. We wrote -1L and 0L apparently 0x6b8 bytes into the object. That's an awfully large offset for tty_struct - off the end. Sometimes the buffer was used as skb data too.
Unless it was a DMA scribble, CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC should catch this. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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