On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 07:55:55AM +0300, Dan Aloni wrote: > > that theory went away. (also confirmed by not finding a netlink module.) > > > > What about the kernel .text overflowing into the modules space? The loader > > checks for that, but can something like that happen after everything is > > up and running? I'll look into that tomorrow. > > The kernel .text needs to be more than 512MB for the overlap to happen. > > ffffffff80000000 - ffffffffa0000000 (=512 MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0 > > Also, it is bizarre that symbol resolution resolved ffffffffa0f12560 to > a symbol that is in module space where af_netlink.o is surely not because of > "obj-y := af_netlink.o" in the Makefile. > > What does your /proc/kallsyms show when sorted with regards to the symbols > in question? > > Also curious are the addresses you have on the stack: > > > [ 516.309720] Stack: > > [ 516.309720] ffff8803fc85ff18 ffff8803fc85ff18 ffff8803fc85fef8 8900200549908020 > > [ 516.309720] ffff8803fc85ff18 ffffffff9ff66470 ffff8803fc85ff18 0000000000000037 > > [ 516.309720] ffff8803fc85ff78 ffffffff9ff69d26 0000000000000037 0000000000000004 >[..] Oh, just figured about the new kASLR feature that got enabled recently, it explains the addresses, but there was supposed to be a line for it in the Oops, so I'm puzzled. -- Dan Aloni -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>