Slab corruption
I got the below message in my dmesg.
I've attached my config.
All I was doing at the time was exiting alsamixer.
I've tried to reproduce it with alsamixer, but it wasn't reproducable. I hope this information can be of some use.
I don't think the below problem is related to my hardware configuration. I will provide any additional information upon request.
Thanks,
David
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Slab corruption: start=d5b78b64, expend=d5b78cb3, problemat=d5b78c7c
Last user: [<c017b4c8>](proc_destroy_inode+0x1d/0x21)
Data: ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************6C DB DE C5 ***************************************************A5
Next: 71 F0 2C .C8 B4 17 C0 A5 C2 0F 17 00 8D 68 D2 0A 80 00 00 CC B9 17 C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
slab error in check_poison_obj(): cache `proc_inode_cache': object was modified after freeing
Call Trace: [<c013a475>] check_poison_obj+0x155/0x195 [<c013bb47>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x120/0x144 [<c017b456>] proc_alloc_inode+0x1e/0x73 [<c017b456>] proc_alloc_inode+0x1e/0x73 [<c01669ca>] alloc_inode+0x1e/0x14a [<c01674e4>] get_new_inode_fast+0x1a/0xe9 [<c01380a5>] __alloc_pages+0x83/0x302 [<c0167960>] iget_locked+0x98/0xc2 [<c017b63f>] proc_get_inode+0x30/0x171 [<c017dd9f>] proc_lookup+0x113/0x11b [<c017b85a>] proc_root_lookup+0x24/0xa6 [<c015c037>] real_lookup+0xbb/0xe1 [<c015c308>] do_lookup+0x8d/0x98 [<c015c7ab>] link_path_walk+0x498/0x8e1 [<c016152d>] sys_select+0x21b/0x51e [<c015d4d0>] open_namei+0x76/0x41f [<c014e752>] filp_open+0x41/0x64 [<c015bc78>] getname+0x8c/0xba [<c014ebf2>] sys_open+0x55/0x85 [<c010ad4d>] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x71
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