On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 02:39:38PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
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> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:05:01 +0100
> 
> > the bug went away - and the only thing i did was a networking config 
> > tweak. So maybe something in networking corrupts memory?
> 
> This wouldn't surprise me at all.
> 
> I think we can make some headway on this bug, the next time
> you trigger it, if the list debugging was a little less terse.
> 
> For example, a backtrace and perhaps even feeding the bad list
> pointers in question to the SLAB/SLUB debug helpers that can
> identify a kmem cache from a given pointer would help.

He hit the bug using SLOB and there are no kmem (or any other) caches
in SLOB.

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