Re: BUG slab.c, buffer.c

[Anton Altaparmakov]

At 18:46 27/11/01, Martin Donnelly wrote:
>I noticed strange behaviour recently with a driver i'm developing and
>tried to replicate it in a simple module to determine if it was my
>driver or a kernel bug. Basically i allocate 120k with kmalloc then
>initialising this memory i get the following oops. (I've tried this on
>several machines with the same results)
>
>Any ideas what is wrong?
>[snip of oopsen]
>The code being use to generate this is:
>
>int init_module(void)
>{
>     addr = kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL, mem_size);
>     if(addr != NULL)
>     {
>         u8      *byte;
>         u32     ix;
>
>         byte = addr;
>         for(ix = 0; ix < mempage_size; ix++)

Is mem_size >= mempage_size?

Anton

>         {
>             *byte = 0;
>             byte++;
>         }
>     }
>     return 0;
>}
>
>
>
>
>--
>Martin Donnelly                                Senior Software Engineer
>                                                RAMiX Europe Ltd
>99 little bugs in the code, 99 bugs in the code,
>fix one bug, compile it again...
>101 little bugs in the code....
>
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