Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760926Ab2EIT65 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2012 15:58:57 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:33899 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756490Ab2EIT64 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2012 15:58:56 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 15:58:48 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Linux Kernel Cc: Szymon Gruszczynski , Fedora Kernel Team , Al Viro , Tejun Heo Subject: stack overflow in printk_all_partitions. Message-ID: <20120509195848.GA961@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Linux Kernel , Szymon Gruszczynski , Fedora Kernel Team , Al Viro , Tejun Heo MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1495 Lines: 33 Szymon (cc'd) reported this oops that prevents his machine booting a 3.3.4 kernel. [ 2.892504] Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack corrupted in: ffffffff81b14c7e [ 2.892506] [ 2.892872] [] panic+0xba/0x1c6 [ 2.892961] [] ? printk_all_partitions+0x259/0x26xb [ 2.893057] [] __stack_chk_fail+0x1b/0x20 [ 2.893147] [] printk_all_paritions+0x259/0x26xb [ 2.893244] [] mount_block_root+0x1bc/0x27f [ 2.893336] [] mount_root+0x57/0x5b [ 2.893425] [] prepare_namespace+0x13d/0x176 [ 2.893522] [] ? release_tgcred.isra.4+0x330/0x30 [ 2.893616] [] kernel_init+0x155/0x15a [ 2.893708] [] ? schedule_tail+0x27/0xb0 [ 2.893800] [] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x10 [ 2.893893] [] ? start_kernel+0x3c5/0x3c5 [ 2.893984] [] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13 His partition tables don't look anything out of the ordinary to me. http://wklej.org/id/748085/ Any ideas what's going wrong here ? original report at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=819624, though all pertinent info so far is captured above. Dave -- 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/