Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964934AbWJBUAP (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:00:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964933AbWJBUAP (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:00:15 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:39862 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964929AbWJBUAN (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:00:13 -0400 Message-Id: <200610021957.k92Jvk6c004169@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: jt@hpl.hp.com Cc: Andrew Morton , Pavel Roskin , "John W. Linville" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.18-mm2 - oops in cache_alloc_refill() In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:52:45 PDT." <20061002175245.GA14744@bougret.hpl.hp.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20060928014623.ccc9b885.akpm@osdl.org> <200609290319.k8T3JOwS005455@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20060928202931.dc324339.akpm@osdl.org> <200609291519.k8TFJfvw004256@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20060929124558.33ef6c75.akpm@osdl.org> <200609300001.k8U01sPI004389@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20060929182008.fee2a229.akpm@osdl.org> <20061002175245.GA14744@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1159819066_3357P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:57:46 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1778 Lines: 45 --==_Exmh_1159819066_3357P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:52:45 PDT, Jean Tourrilhes said: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:20:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:01:54 -0400 > > > > > > % grep ioctl /tmp/foo2 | sort -u | more > > > ioctl(13, SIOCGIWESSID, 0xbfbcdb9c) = 0 > > > ioctl(13, SIOCGIWRANGE, 0xbfbcdbdc) = 0 > > > ioctl(13, SIOCGIWRATE, 0xbfbcdbbc) = 0 > > > > Yes. The main thing which those WE-21 patches do is to shorten the size of > > various buffers which are used in wireless ioctls. > > Ok, I've found it. Actually, I feel ashamed, as it is a fairly > classical buffer overflow, we put one extra char in a buffer. Now, I > don't understand why it did not blow up on my box ;-) > New patch. I think it is right, but I would not mind Pavel to > have a look at it. On my box it does not make thing worse. > Valdis : would you mind trying if this patch fix the problem > you are seeing with WE-21 ? If it fixes it, I'll send it to John... Been up and running with we-21 configured in, and gkrellm doing the monitoring that gave it indigestion. It was dying in 1-2 minutes, now been up for 30 mins with no issues.... --==_Exmh_1159819066_3357P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFFIW86cC3lWbTT17ARAm5YAKDhD4Cpy1VshSwCJRKNc+v0q4IHwACeJbTF QD9vlJjo0NeVietrs44RLwE= =rsmA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1159819066_3357P-- - 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/