linux-kernel - Re: [sched-devel/latest] WARNING: at mm/slub.c:2443

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Date:	Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:38:45 +0300 (EEST)
From:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@...hat.com>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	gregkh@...e.de
Subject: Re: [sched-devel/latest] WARNING: at mm/slub.c:2443

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> > Cc:-ing USB folks as the kmem_cache_destroy() comes from 
> > drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c.
> 
> I looked at this whole day today, but found nothing.
> 
> The code analysis for usbmon shows nothing. Anyone wants to have
> a look?

So something like the following totally untested patch.

		Pekka

diff --git a/drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c b/drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c
index 5e3e4e9..c6fdc6e 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c
@@ -449,6 +449,7 @@ static struct mon_event_text *mon_text_read_wait(struct mon_reader_text *rp,
 		if (file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) {
 			set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
 			remove_wait_queue(&rp->wait, &waita);
+			kmem_cache_free(rp->e_slab, ep);
 			return ERR_PTR(-EWOULDBLOCK);
 		}
 		/*
@@ -458,6 +459,7 @@ static struct mon_event_text *mon_text_read_wait(struct mon_reader_text *rp,
 		schedule();
 		if (signal_pending(current)) {
 			remove_wait_queue(&rp->wait, &waita);
+			kmem_cache_free(rp->e_slab, ep);
 			return ERR_PTR(-EINTR);
 		}
 		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
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