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SubjectRe: [patch] slub crashes with recent -git
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On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 21:42 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Linus, Christoph,
>
> recent slub commits in -git cause this bootup crash:
>
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 324k freed
> Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 1294k

Just curious, are the crashes even possible in 2.6.22.1? (I see the same
patchable code snippet in the source). Just wondering if I should also
apply this to 2.6.21.1-rt4...

-- Fernando


> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:2401!
> invalid opcode: 0000 [#1]
> PREEMPT SMP
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0060:[<c017dac3>] Not tainted VLI
> EFLAGS: 00010046 (2.6.22 #1)
> EIP is at ksize+0x13/0x42
> eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000020 edx: 00000000
> esi: f76a4000 edi: 00000004 ebp: f7b11e74 esp: f7b11e74
> ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0033 ss: 0068
> Process udevd (pid: 824, ti=f7b11000 task=f7ca5000 task.ti=f7b11000)
> Stack: f7b11e94 c016c28b f768cb00 00000020 f7ca5000 00000004 f76a4000 fffffff4
> f7b11eb4 c03cf158 00000002 f76a4000 00000020 f768cb00 f76a4000 f7b11ed8
> f7b11ed0 c03cfbc6 f768cb00 f768cb00 c046bf80 f768cb00 0000000c f7b11f6c
> Call Trace:
> [<c0105e3e>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x19/0x2e
> [<c0105ef0>] show_stack_log_lvl+0x9d/0xa5
> [<c010628f>] show_registers+0x1f5/0x334
> [<c01064e6>] die+0x118/0x1fc
> [<c0426e7f>] do_trap+0x8e/0xa8
> [<c0106ac3>] do_invalid_op+0x88/0x92
> [<c0426a92>] error_code+0x72/0x78
> [<c016c28b>] krealloc+0x27/0x6d
> [<c03cf158>] netlink_realloc_groups+0x61/0xd9
> [<c03cfbc6>] netlink_bind+0x4f/0x121
> [<c03afe8d>] sys_bind+0x67/0x86
> [<c03b11e3>] sys_socketcall+0x8f/0x244
> [<c0104ef2>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6b/0xb5
> =======================
> Code: 40 02 00 75 03 8b 52 0c 8b 02 5d 84 c0 b8 00 00 00 00 0f 49 d0 89 d0 c3 55 31 d2 83 f8 10 89 e5 74 34 e8 bc ff ff ff 85 c0 75 04 <0f> 0b eb fe 8b 40 10 85 c0 75 04 0f 0b eb fe 8b 10 f6 c6 0c 74
>
> i had to apply the patch below to make the kernel boot again.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
>
> Index: linux/mm/slub.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/mm/slub.c
> +++ linux/mm/slub.c
> @@ -2394,7 +2394,7 @@ size_t ksize(const void *object)
> struct page *page;
> struct kmem_cache *s;
>
> - if (object == ZERO_SIZE_PTR)
> + if (object == ZERO_SIZE_PTR || !object)
> return 0;
>
> page = get_object_page(object);
> -
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