linux-kernel - Re: NULL pointer in kmem_cache

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Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:03:14 +0800
From:	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: NULL pointer in kmem_cache_alloc with 2.6.25-rc1

On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 08:42 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> 
> > On my 16-core tigerton, kernel panic when I ran hackbench process testing. See
> > below log.
> > 
> 
> > Kernel panic at line 1637 in file mm/slub.c because object=c->freelist=NULL.
> 
> Hmmmm. freelist should never be NULL. Could you rerun the test and boot with 
> slub_debug to make sure that there is no memory corruption?
1) Without slub_debug option, sometime I could trigger it, sometimes not.
2) With slub_debug option, or just enable debug for slab skbuff_fclone_cache
and skbuff_head_cache, I couldn't trigger it.

I will do more testing and investigation, as the bug also exists in 2.6.25-rc2.

-yanmin


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