slab corruption on XO-1 (mesh related?)

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Wed Jan 6 21:31:31 EST 2010


On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 11:32 +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 14:04 -0600, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 19:48 +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
> > > I think this is a 2.6.31 regression. I don't have time to investigate
> > > right now.
> > > 
> > > To reproduce I just connected to the mesh on msh0, disconnect from the
> > > mesh and connect to an access point on eth0.
> > > 
> > > Then things go a bit wrong and this appears in the logs, repeatedly:
> > 
> > 32-character SSID perhaps?
> 
> Yes, I think that was the case. Have you spotted something?

A patch just hit stable kernels and upstream for 32-character SSIDs; it
could cause memory corruption.

Dan





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