linux-kernel - Re: kobj refcounting weirdness

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Date:	Mon, 9 Mar 2009 12:01:43 -0600
From:	Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>
To:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, kay.sievers@...y.org, rjw@...k.pl,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kobj refcounting weirdness

* Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....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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