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SubjectRe: BUG kmalloc-16: Object already free
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Justin Mattock
<justinmattock@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote:
>> Hi Rabin,
>>
>>> > After frying my system, I'm finally up and
>>> > running. Not sure if this was due to a git-pull
>>> > (only be a few days since the last pull), or what:
>>> > when waking from suspend I see this
>>> > (I know it says tainted in it, so this will be the only noise you'll
>>> > here from me on this);
>>> >
>>> > [ 274.327003] =============================================================================
>>> > [ 274.327528] BUG kmalloc-16: Object already free
>>> > [ 274.327877] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> > [ 274.327879]
>>> > [ 274.327890] INFO: Allocated in btusb_open+0x82/0x16f [btusb] age=0
>>> > cpu=1 pid=3763
>>> > [ 274.327899] INFO: Freed in btusb_open+0x13d/0x16f [btusb] age=0
>>> > cpu=1 pid=3763
>>> > [ 274.327905] INFO: Slab 0xc139a100 objects=64 used=62 fp=0xdcd08100
>>> > flags=0x400000c3
>>>
>>> There's a commit in the latest git which looks like it will solve the
>>> btusb suspend/resume issues: 5fbcd260.. ("[Bluetooth] Fix USB disconnect
>>> handling of btusb driver").
>>>
>>> Marcel / linux-bluetooth, I think this double free is a separate issue
>>> with the error handling, and the following patch should fix it.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> From: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
>>> Subject: [PATCH] btusb, bpa10x: fix double frees on error paths
>>>
>>> Justin Mattock reported this double free in btusb:
>>>
>>> BUG kmalloc-16: Object already free
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> INFO: Allocated in btusb_open+0x82/0x16f [btusb] age=3D0 cpu=3D1 pid=3D3763
>>> INFO: Freed in btusb_open+0x13d/0x16f [btusb] age=3D0 cpu=3D1 pid=3D3763
>>>
>>> This occurs because the urb's transfer buffer is being freed separately
>>> in the error path even though the URB_FREE_BUFFER transfer_flag is set
>>> on the urb.
>>>
>>> There are similar cases elsewhere in btusb and in bpa10x. Fix all of
>>> them by removing the additional kfree()'s.
>>
>> I haven't verified it yet, but it looks like a good catch. Let me double
>> check this on my test machine. Weird that we never noticed this before
>> since I have been using the btusb driver for a very long time now.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Marcel
>>
>>
>>
>
> This was the first time I've seen this,
> I can apply the patch myself, but first
> I need to figure why dbus can be such a bitch : )
> Need to figure out how to write dbus rules(if this is the case)
> keep getting the permissions denied crap.
>
> --
> Justin P. Mattock
>

O.k. after messing around with /etc/dbus
I've applied the patch that was supplied.
Looks good!! attached is a before the patch was
applied and after the patch was applied.

--
Justin P. Mattock
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