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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1508201253030.27942@twin.jikos.cz>
Date:	Thu, 20 Aug 2015 12:53:54 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:	Muni Sekhar <munisekharrms@...il.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Debugging General Protection Fault’s

On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Muni Sekhar wrote:

>  [ Please keep me in CC as I'm not subscribed to the list]
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a doubt regarding debugging general protection fault’s.
> I am running the driver tests on Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU.
> During the tests I see system hangs after continuous occurrence of
> general protection fault’s.
> 
> First fault occurred on CPU: 0 , but it is not related to our driver,

There is no evidence that this is not caused by your driver. It's #GP in 
__kmalloc(), which might very well be caused by use after free in your 
driver, corrupting slab metadata or so.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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