Bug#681161: [squeeze] General Protection Fault or Invalid Opcode in mm/slub.c:2969

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

# letting version tracking do its work
tags 681161 - squeeze
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Hi,

Chris Angelico wrote:

> Bug can currently be repro'd reliably by typing 'sudo apt-get upgrade'. System
> beeps and a bit of information is dumped to all my gnome-terminal sessions;
> /var/log/syslog reports variously Invalid Opcode and General Protection Fault
> each time. Full syslog available if of value.

What would be most useful is the first oops (it should say "not tainted")
starting a few lines before the "general protection fault" and ending a
few lines after the "end trace".

mm/slub.c:2969 is BUG_ON(!PageCompound(page)) in kfree(), indicating a
free of a bad pointer.

Thanks and hope that helps,
Jonathan