linux-kernel - Re: Memory corruption warnings triggered by repeated slabinfo -v

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Message-ID: <4EECF64B.1020409@palosanto.com>
Date:	Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:06:35 -0500
From:	Alex Villacís Lasso <a_villacis@...osanto.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: Memory corruption warnings triggered by repeated slabinfo -v

El 16/12/11 22:28, Eric Dumazet escribió:
> Le vendredi 16 décembre 2011 à 21:14 -0500, Alex Villacís Lasso a
> écrit :
>> I am running Fedora 16 x86_64 and testing vanilla kernel 3.2-rc5. I
>> wanted to test the slabinfo program, so I wrote a small shell script
>> slabinfo-forever.sh (attached) that invokes slabinfo -v every 3 seconds.
>> Just by doing this, I was able to trigger several memory validation
>> warnings, attached in this message. The reason I wanted to test slabinfo
>> is because back when I was running Fedora 14, I had some video issues
>> that seemed consistent with memory corruption. I tried to submit a
>> kernel bug at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42312 just
>> before the kernel.org hack issue, but bugzilla.kernel.org never came up
>> after that.
> Problem is known and fixes were submitted.
>
>
Still happening in 3.2-rc6. The dmesg output is attached.

What are the git commits of the fixes? Are they scheduled to go into 3.2 
stable?

View attachment "dmesg-slabinfo-3.2-rc6.txt" of type "text/plain" (118404 bytes)