Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:21:47 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: Slab corruption after unloading a module |
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On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:04:39 +1200 Zhiyi Huang wrote:
> > 2.6.8 is an old kernel, you could very well be hitting a kernel bug > > that has been fixed already. Can you reproduce this with 2.6.16? > > I will try that soon. > > > Also, > > you're not including sources to your module so it's impossible to tell > > whether you're doing something wrong. > > > > Pekka > > Below is my baby module which only uses kmalloc and kfree for my device > structure. I found the slab corruption address is the address of the structure. > It seems to be a bug for kmalloc and kfree.
> /* The parameter for testing */ > int major=0; > MODULE_PARM(major, "i"); > MODULE_PARM_DESC(major, "device major number");
Hi, I had no problem loading and unloading your module on 2.6.17-rc1 [after changing MODULE_PARM() to module_param(major, int, 0644); ].
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