Bug#341392: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:1807!

[Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>]

Hi Frans,

It's not kernel's fault. I have just booted the 2.6.14 off today's
sid_d-i daily netinst, and it has the bug. The bug appears because the 
af_unix_init function is invoked twice, and it normally should not happen.
This function is the init function for the unix domain socket driver, 
which we have recently started compiling into the kernel, so that the 
corresponding module (unix.ko) is no longer shipped in kernel packages. It 
is not present in linux-image-2.6.14-2-{386,686} packages (version 
2.6.14-4) as you can easily check. However, somehow this unix.ko module 
ends up in the installer initrd anyway, as

/lib/modules/2.6.14-2-386/kernel/net/unix/unix.ko

So the kernel first initializes the built-in driver, and then tries to 
load the unix.ko module, which results in a bug. I don't know how unix.ko 
ends up in the d-i initrd, but that's clearly a problem on your side of 
the field :-). Feel free to reassign, since I don't have a clue about 
which d-i component is to blame for that.

Thanks and best regards,

Jurij Smakov                                        jurij@wooyd.org
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