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Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:18:07 -0600
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
CC: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
       Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
       John W Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] p54usb: fix usb_kill_urb hang with slub_debug=P
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Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 03:47:45PM +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
>> This patch fixes a problem identified by Johannes Berg.
> 
> No, it only papers over the real problem here, let's work on a correct
> patch please.

I can contribute a little info. If SLUB debugging is enabled, and the boot
command includes 'slub_debug=P', I get a GPF in kref_get(), which is called from
kobject_get() with the following code:

        if (kobj)
                kref_get(&kobj->kref);

>From the dump, &kobj->kref is 0x6b6b6b6b6b6b6dbb, a poisoned value.

Somewhere, the "struct urb" has been freed, but kobj has not been set to NULL.

As everything I've found is a symptom, I'm still looking for the real cause.

Larry


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