Re: slab error in 2.5.64-mm4

[Andrew Morton]

J Sloan <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> This may be of interest -
> 
> kernel: 2.5.64-mm4
> 
> Linux distro: Red Hat 8.0 + updates
> 
> Hardware:
> Celeron 1.2 Ghz on genuine Intel Motherboard, 512 MB RAM
> 
> Just recompiled 2.5.64-mm4 with full debugging
> and saw a slab error right after bringing up the
> ethernet interfaces -
> 
> Full kernel log attached, but the meat of it is here:
> 
> Mar  9 21:42:54 jyro kernel: Slab corruption: start=dfc15964, 
> expend=dfc159e3, problemat=dfc1599c
> Mar  9 21:42:54 jyro kernel: Last user: [<00000000>](0x0)

Drat.  We should _not_ have a zero here.  Without this info we know next to
nothing.

Please ensure that you have CONFIG_FRAME_PONTER enabled.  But the slab
diagnostic seems to work OK here without that.

Oh well.  It'll come again.