Re: list corruption in the last few days. (block ? crypto ?)

From: Xiaotian Feng
Date: Mon Aug 08 2011 - 02:34:28 EST


On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi Linus,
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Christoph, I've been reading the code and spotted two potential issues in
>>>>> __slab_free(). The first one seems like an off-by-one where our
>>>>> comparison
>>>>> in deactivate_slab() doesn't match __slab_free.
>>>>>
>>>>> The other one is remove_full() call in __slab_free() that can get called
>>>>> even if cache debugging is not enabled.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm?
>>>
>>> On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to do -rc1 today, regardless of whether this fixes things or
>>>> not (-rc1 is already a few days delayed).
>>>>
>>>> The patch seems to be a good fix, and a likely candidate for the
>>>> corruption. Commit log and sign-off? I assume you've given it some
>>>> testing, even if you couldn't reproduce the original issue?
>>>
>>> No, I haven't tested the patch myself but here's one in proper format in
>>> case someone wants to test it.
>>
>> I applied it and I'm still seeing the corruption warning start from this :(
>
> Thanks for testing. Can you share your .config, please?

Attached, thanks.

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