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Date:      Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:21:44 -0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        mdf@freebsd.org
Cc:        Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: "Memory modified after free" - by whom?
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On 10 December 2012 15:18,  <mdf@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 9216 sounds like a jumbo frame mbuf. So the NIC is writing to an mbuf
>> after it's finalised/freed.
>>
>> I have a similar bug showing up on ath(4) RX. :(
>
> Compile with DEBUG_MEMGUARD in the kernel configuration, and then set
> vm.memguard.desc to the name of the UMA zone used for the 9216 byte
> allocations, mbuf_jumbo_9k.  This should cause a panic when the memory
> is touched after free.

Right, but I think its a _hardware_ access after the buffer has been freed..


Adrian



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