Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:59:32 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: BUG kmalloc-16: Object padding overwritten (sysfs?) |
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > find /sys/slab | xargs cat
Hmmm... This works fine here. Doing the cat may trigger slab validation and show objects corruptions that were heretofore unnoticed.
Could you see if running
slabinfo -v
gives the same results?
> So do you beleive the bug lies in the /sys/slab implementation?
I would think that this is evidence of memory corruption occurring. The issues were detected while SLUB attempted to flush per cpu queues. - 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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