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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:39:52 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@...dia.com>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> Subject: Re: [1/3] 2.6.21-rc6: known regressions * Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote: > > The 6b6b6b6b pattern is POISON_FREE, implying some kind of slab > > misuse, most likely a use-after-free, although possibly just due to > > overrunning a slab into the next one or something like that. > > unfortunately, while being at -rc6 based kernel #445 meanwhile, this > incident was the only time i saw this problem. [...] meanwhile i'm at kernel bootup #657, and still this crash did not reoccur. So it could have been some pre-existing sysfs bug that triggers only extremely rarely. I'd suggest that this bug have its priority lowered (to not hold up a v2.6.21 release) - there's no smoking gun and no reproducer. I'll keep an eye on it. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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