Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2001 20:00:49 +0000 | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: BUG slab.c, buffer.c |
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At 18:46 27/11/01, Martin Donnelly wrote: >I noticed strange behaviour recently with a driver i'm developing and >tried to replicate it in a simple module to determine if it was my >driver or a kernel bug. Basically i allocate 120k with kmalloc then >initialising this memory i get the following oops. (I've tried this on >several machines with the same results) > >Any ideas what is wrong? >[snip of oopsen] >The code being use to generate this is: > >int init_module(void) >{ > addr = kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL, mem_size); > if(addr != NULL) > { > u8 *byte; > u32 ix; > > byte = addr; > for(ix = 0; ix < mempage_size; ix++)
Is mem_size >= mempage_size?
Anton
> { > *byte = 0; > byte++; > } > } > return 0; >} > > > > >-- >Martin Donnelly Senior Software Engineer > RAMiX Europe Ltd >99 little bugs in the code, 99 bugs in the code, >fix one bug, compile it again... >101 little bugs in the code.... > >- >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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