Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Mar 2009 12:01:43 -0600 | From | Alex Chiang <> | Subject | Re: kobj refcounting weirdness |
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* Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 10:50:10AM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote: > > I thought about the allocators returning a pointer to the same > > location that maybe has some valid looking data hanging around, > > but it's not wise for someone like me to go pointing fingers at > > the allocator before I've proven the bug isn't in my code. ;) > > Slab poisoning would be the logical next thing to try to decide whether > the allocator is wrong or you're using it wrong ;-)
We had a double free in the PCIe port driver. Removing the double free seems to fix my issue.
The double free is only in Jesse's linux-next branch, so no need to worry about it in mainline/stable.
Thanks.
/ac
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