Re: [RFC][PATCH] timers fixes/improvements

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I wonder if this problem might benifit from the "breakpoint on write" capability in kgdb. If you are using the kgdb in the mm patch, look in Documentation/i386/kgdb/gdbinit.hw at the hwwbrk macro. You will, of course, have to source this file from gdb to load the macro. Then you can use the gdb command: help hwwbrk to get info on how to use it.

If the location is not written to too often this should help find the offender.

George
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Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2005, Oleg Nesterov wrote:


There is no corruption around ptype_all as you can see from the log. There
is a list of hex numbers which are from ptype_all -8 to ptype_all +8.
Looks okay to me.

Still ptype_all could be accessed (and corrupted) as ptype_base[16].

Christoph, could you please reboot with this patch?


Ok. I added padding before and after ptype_all.
With padding the problem no longer occurs.

However, if the padding is put before ptype_base and after ptype_all
then the problem occurs.

So it looks like this is due to writes intended for ptype_base going
out of bounds. However, there nothing in the code in net/core/dev.c
that would allow this to happen. Also why is the list head set
to 0x10:0x10?

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