Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752449Ab0HTNoI (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:44:08 -0400 Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:58994 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750977Ab0HTNoH (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:44:07 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.36-rc1 -- BUG: kmalloc-4096: Object already free -- INFO: Allocated in wireless_send_event+0x21d/0x344 From: Johannes Berg To: Miles Lane Cc: LKML , Jaroslav Kysela In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:44:02 +0200 Message-ID: <1282311842.3793.11.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 921 Lines: 21 On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:20 -0700, Miles Lane wrote: > Is this indicative of a kernel bug or just problems with userspace apps? > > [ 44.455666] BUG kmalloc-4096: Object already free > [ 44.455670] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [ 44.455673] > [ 44.455685] INFO: Allocated in wireless_send_event+0x21d/0x344 > age=0 cpu=1 pid=635 It's a bug that even exists in 2.6.35, fixed here: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commit;h=daa3766e705c2605bd7f63b80c7742014ef9e04e http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commit;h=68d6ac6d2740b6a55f3ae92a4e0be6d881904b32 johannes -- 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/