linux-ext4 - Re: 2.6.25-git2: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff

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Message-ID: <480F857A.3090503@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date:	Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:52:42 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-git2: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Looks like possibly a double free to me (with the first free caused the 
> page to be re-used, the second free is the one that triggers the debug 
> message). But maybe Pekka or Christoph are better at reading those oopses.
> 
>> =============================================================================
>> BUG kmalloc-4096: Padding overwritten. 0x0000000000000000-0x00000000ffffffff
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Okay, this doesn't make sense to me. The code does:

     u8 *start;
     u8 *fault;

     /* ... */

     start = page_address(page);

     /* ... */

     fault = check_bytes(start + length, POISON_INUSE, remainder);
     if (!fault)
             return 1;
     while (end > fault && end[-1] == POISON_INUSE)
             end--;

     slab_err(s, page, "Padding overwritten. 0x%p-0x%p", fault, end - 1);

So how come we're printing out 'fault' as zero and 'end' at 4 GB? Christoph?

Zdenek, can you please send the full dmesg?

		Pekka
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