Re: [OOPS][RESEND] 2.6.0-test4-mm4

[Bongani Hlope]

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 15:36:47 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Bongani Hlope <bonganilinux@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I got the following oops when I was trying to load alsa drivers on
> > the 2.6.0-test4-mm4 kernel.
> 
> Generally it's best to enable CONFIG_ALLSYMS and not bother running
> ksymoops: the kernel does the decode for you.
> 
> The problem with ksymoops seems to be that it causes people to not send
> important preceding messages.  In this case:
> 
> 		printk(KERN_ERR "kfree_debugcheck: out of range ptr %lxh.\n",
> 			(unsigned long)objp);	
> 

<snip>

S> Anyway, you died in kobject_cleanup()'s call to kfree(kobj->k_name), which
> was newly added as a part of kobject-unlimited-name-lengths.patch.
> 
> Is it repeatable?  Exactly which modules were you attempting to load at the
> time?  And please send your .config.
> 
> Thanks.


This is repeatable, each time it tries to load the alsa snd module. Where do you enable CONFIG_ALLSYMS?

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