Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932111AbWCFSs5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 13:48:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932150AbWCFSs5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 13:48:57 -0500 Received: from sabe.cs.wisc.edu ([128.105.6.20]:26526 "EHLO sabe.cs.wisc.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932111AbWCFSs4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 13:48:56 -0500 Message-ID: <440C8405.60601@cs.wisc.edu> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 12:48:37 -0600 From: Mike Christie User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Jesper Juhl , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , markhe@nextd.demon.co.uk, Andrea Arcangeli , James Bottomley Subject: Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2 References: <200603060117.16484.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 768 Lines: 17 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > James, Mike, can you double-check the retries? In particular, it's _wrong_ > to retry after you've already marked a command completed with > "complete(rq->waiting)", so if that happens somewhere, things are really > broken. > I am looking into it. I think it has something to do with the request getting completed too early or maybe something crazy like twice. This looks like a similar problem that was reported to linux-scsi where for some tape setup the request's bio gets freed twice. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/