linux-kernel - Re: sn9c10x list corruption in 2.6.18.1

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Message-ID: <84144f020610221337k2137a1a9xeb35a4bce48e152c@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:37:06 +0300
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Dave Jones" <davej@...hat.com>,
	"Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Luca Risolia" <luca.risolia@...dio.unibo.it>
Subject: Re: sn9c10x list corruption in 2.6.18.1

On 10/22/06, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> wrote:
> What's odd here is that we have a list entry still on a list, with its ->next set to
> LIST_POISON2, which should only ever happen after an entry has been removed from
> a list.  The list manipulation in cache_alloc_refill is all done under l3->list_lock,
> so I'm puzzled how this is possible.
>
> I found one area in the driver where we do list manipulation without any locking,
> but I'm not entirely convinced that this is the source of the bug yet.

But I don't see how that could cause a slab list to go bad. An
old-fashioned slab corruption sounds more like it. Does the the kernel
have CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG enabled?

                                    Pekka
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