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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:17:33 +0100
From: "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
To: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [slab corruption] BUG key_jar: Poison overwritten
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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       "David Howells" <dhowells@redhat.com>,
       "Michael LeMay" <mdlemay@epoch.ncsc.mil>,
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       "Stephen Smalley" <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>, "Paul Moore" <paul.moore@hp.com>,
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:>> * Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> wrote:>>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:>> >>> > -tip testing found the rather scary looking slab corruption:>> >>> > [   35.419875] CPU0 attaching sched-domain:>> > [   35.420101]  domain 0: span 0-1 level CPU>> > [   35.425883]   groups: 0 1>> > [   35.428527] CPU1 attaching sched-domain:>> > [   35.432010]  domain 0: span 0-1 level CPU>> > [   35.437729]   groups: 1 0>> > [   37.380005] eth0: no IPv6 routers present>> > [   44.478286] =============================================================================>> > [   44.482064] BUG key_jar: Poison overwritten>> > [   44.482064] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------->> > [   44.482064]>> > [   44.482064] INFO: 0xf5f320c0-0xf5f320c0. First byte 0x6a instead of 0x6b>> > [   44.482064] INFO: Allocated in key_alloc+0xe7/0x30e age=291 cpu=1 pid=2815>> > [   44.482064] INFO: Freed in key_cleanup+0xd8/0xdd age=292 cpu=1 pid=2520>> > [   44.482064] INFO: Slab 0xc1f9cfb8 objects=21 used=2 fp=0xf5f320c0 flags=0x400000c3>> > [   44.482064] INFO: Object 0xf5f320c0 @offset=192 fp=0xf5f32240>> > [   44.482064]>> > [   44.482064] Bytes b4 0xf5f320b0:  7c 05 ff ff 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a |.��ZZZZZZZZZZZZ>> > [   44.482064]   Object 0xf5f320c0:  6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b jkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk>> > [   44.482064]   Object 0xf5f320d0:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk>> > [   44.482064]   Object 0xf5f320e0:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk>> > [   44.482064]   Object 0xf5f320f0:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk>> > [   44.482064]   Object 0xf5f32100:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk>> > [   44.482064]   Object 0xf5f32110:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk>> > [   44.482064]   Object 0xf5f32120:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk>> > [   44.482064]   Object 0xf5f32130:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk>> > [   44.482064]   Object 0xf5f32140:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b a5             kkkkkkkkkkk�>> > [   44.482064]  Redzone 0xf5f3214c:  bb bb bb bb                                     ����>> > [   44.482064]  Padding 0xf5f32174:  5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a             ZZZZZZZZZZZZ>> > [   44.482064] Pid: 2832, comm: sudo Not tainted 2.6.29-rc1-tip-01097-gf5d0b1b-dirty #16445>> > [   44.482064] Call Trace:>> > [   44.482064]  [<c018e25c>] print_trailer+0xcd/0xd5>> > [   44.482064]  [<c018e2dc>] check_bytes_and_report+0x78/0x94>> > [   44.482064]  [<c018e55c>] check_object+0xa9/0x191>> > [   44.482064]  [<c018eff3>] __slab_alloc+0x365/0x42c>> > [   44.482064]  [<c0144dda>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0xd>> > [   44.482064]  [<c018f369>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x64/0xc1>> > [   44.482064]  [<c02d040e>] ? key_alloc+0xe7/0x30e>> > [   44.482064]  [<c02d040e>] ? key_alloc+0xe7/0x30e>> > [   44.482064]  [<c02d040e>] key_alloc+0xe7/0x30e>> > [   44.482064]  [<c02d1429>] keyring_alloc+0x24/0x58>> > [   44.482064]  [<c02d2781>] install_session_keyring_to_cred+0x43/0x92>> > [   44.482064]  [<c02d2d61>] lookup_user_key+0xe0/0x30b>> > [   44.482064]  [<c02d17ab>] keyctl_get_keyring_ID+0x12/0x2e>> > [   44.482064]  [<c02d22c2>] sys_keyctl+0x36/0xe3>> > [   44.482064]  [<c0102d55>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x35>> > [   44.482064] FIX key_jar: Restoring 0xf5f320c0-0xf5f320c0=0x6b>> > [   44.482064]>> > [   44.482064] FIX key_jar: Marking all objects used>> >>> > Config attached. The system seemed to stay intact after this incident.>>>>>> Are you sure this is the right config?>>>> # Security options>> #>> # CONFIG_KEYS is not set>>>> ...sys_keyctl() returns -ENOSYS...!?>> no, sorry. The right 'bad' config attached.
Are you sure, is this expected?
  CC      kernel/printk.occ1: warnings being treated as errorsarch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c: In function 'show_cache_disable':arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c:710: error: unused variable 'mask'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c: In function 'store_cache_disable':arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c:745: error: unused variable 'mask'make[2]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.o] Error 1make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/cpu] Error 2make: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
Will restart make with CONFIG_ALLOW_WARNINGS=y...

Vegard
-- "The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in whilethe programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as itdisguises that the error is the programmer's own creation."	-- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036????{.n?+???????+%?????ݶ??w??{.n?+????{??G?????{ay?ʇڙ?,j??f???h?????????z_??(?階?ݢj"???m??????G????????????&???~???iO???z??v?^?m????????????I?