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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:57:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
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On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Manfred Spraul wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> >This is a bad, bad bug.  How are you triggering it?
> >
> >Manfred, would it be possible to add builtin_return_address(0) into each
> >object, so we can find out who did the initial kmalloc (or kfree, even)?
> >
> >It'll probably require CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER.
> >  
> >
> No, CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is only needed for __builtin_return_address(x, 
> x>0). _address(0) always works.
> 
> I've attached a patch that records the last kfree address and prints 
> that if a poison check fails.
> 
> Zwane, could you try to reproduce the bug?

I can almost always witness it given approx 30minutes of runtime, however 
i still don't know how to trigger it by on demand. I'll apply your patch 
and get back to you when it triggers next.

	Zwane
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