linux-kernel - Re: slab: odd BUG on kzalloc

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Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:29:52 -0500
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, mpm@...enic.com,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: slab: odd BUG on kzalloc

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 01:18:25PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:

 > >> [  169.930103] ---[ end trace 4d135f3def21b4bd ]---
 > >>
 > >> The code translates to the following in fs/pipe.c:alloc_pipe_info :
 > >>
 > >>         pipe = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pipe_inode_info), GFP_KERNEL);
 > >>         if (pipe) {
 > >>                 pipe->bufs = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pipe_buffer) * PIPE_DEF_BUFFERS, GFP_KERNEL); <=== this
 > >>                 if (pipe->bufs) {
 > >>                         init_waitqueue_head(&pipe->wait);
 > 
 > Looks like it's not specific to pipe(). I've also got this one now:
 > 
 > Since I've managed to reproduce it, I'll go ahead and add slub_debug and see what it tells us.

I'm curious, did you recently upgrade gcc, or other parts of the toolchain ?
This, and one of the other 'weird' bugs you reported recently have me wondering
if perhaps you're seeing a compiler bug.

	Dave

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