Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2

["Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 3/6/06, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 06 March 2006 21:06, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
<...snip...>
> > and the scary thing is that "len=64".
> >
> > The thing is, SCSI uses "SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE" to determine the maximum
> > sense size to copy, and what do we have, if not
> >
> >       include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h:#define SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE  96
> >
> > ie a 64-byte buffer is simply TOO DAMN SMALL!
> >
> > Now, the thing is, the 64 comes from "sizeof(struct request_sense)", which
> > is what "struct packet_command *" uses. We can change that sizeof() to
> > just use SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE, but that still makes me worry about
>
> Building a kernel with that change on top of the other ones atm.
>
Changing the sizeof() to SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE doesn't fix it :

Slab corruption: start=f79da5a8, len=64
Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
Last user: [<c02934db>](sr_do_ioctl+0x11b/0x270)
000: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 3a 01 00 00
010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Prev obj: start=f79da55c, len=64
Redzone: 0x170fc2a5/0x170fc2a5.
Last user: [<c0158918>](__vmalloc_node+0x68/0x80)
000: d0 1e 1e c3 18 1f 1e c3 60 1f 1e c3 a8 1f 1e c3
010: f0 1f 1e c3 38 20 1e c3 80 20 1e c3 c8 20 1e c3
Next obj: start=f79da5f4, len=64
Redzone: 0x170fc2a5/0x170fc2a5.
Last user: [<c0173923>](real_lookup+0x93/0xe0)
000: 6c 69 62 62 6f 6f 73 74 5f 70 72 67 5f 65 78 65
010: 63 5f 6d 6f 6e 69 74 6f 72 2d 67 63 63 2d 6d 74
Slab corruption: start=f79da5a8, len=64
Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
Last user: [<c02934db>](sr_do_ioctl+0x11b/0x270)
000: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00
010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Prev obj: start=f79da55c, len=64
Redzone: 0x170fc2a5/0x170fc2a5.
Last user: [<c0158918>](__vmalloc_node+0x68/0x80)
000: d0 1e 1e c3 18 1f 1e c3 60 1f 1e c3 a8 1f 1e c3
010: f0 1f 1e c3 38 20 1e c3 80 20 1e c3 c8 20 1e c3
Next obj: start=f79da5f4, len=64
Redzone: 0x170fc2a5/0x170fc2a5.
Last user: [<c0173923>](real_lookup+0x93/0xe0)
000: 6c 69 62 62 6f 6f 73 74 5f 70 72 67 5f 65 78 65
010: 63 5f 6d 6f 6e 69 74 6f 72 2d 67 63 63 2d 6d 74

I'll now go test the things Jens suggested.  Expect more feedback shortly.

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