We had a user report the following trace to us running a 2.6.16rc4 kernel. (It's actually been there since at least 2.6.15) He can trigger it easily with just a 'modprobe sbp2' Whilst it sounds firewire specific, the trace doesn't finger sbp2 at all, but points to scsi_mod. More info at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182005 Dave Feb 18 22:30:17 fgrbhw01 kernel: sbp2: $Rev: 1306 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@xxxxxxxxxx> Feb 18 22:30:17 fgrbhw01 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1) Feb 18 22:30:17 fgrbhw01 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance Feb 18 22:30:17 fgrbhw01 kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices Feb 18 22:30:17 fgrbhw01 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Node 0-00:1023: Using 36byte inquiry workaround Feb 18 22:30:18 fgrbhw01 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device Feb 18 22:30:18 fgrbhw01 kernel: Vendor: Initio Model: 0KLAT80 Rev: 2.05 Feb 18 22:30:18 fgrbhw01 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Feb 18 22:30:18 fgrbhw01 kernel: SCSI device sdb: 781422768 512-byte hdwr sectors (400088 MB) Feb 18 22:30:18 fgrbhw01 kernel: slab error in cache_free_debugcheck(): cache `sgpool-8': double free, or memory outside object was overwritten Feb 18 22:30:18 fgrbhw01 kernel: [<c014d8bf>] cache_free_debugcheck+0xce/0x1b9 [<c01486cb>] mempool_free+0x5f/0x63 Feb 18 22:30:18 fgrbhw01 kernel: [<c014e230>] kmem_cache_free+0x2a/0x5c [<c01486cb>] mempool_free+0x5f/0x63 Feb 18 22:30:18 fgrbhw01 kernel: [<f8864f65>] scsi_io_completion+0x65/0x3ce [scsi_mod] [<f8860bb3>] scsi_finish_command+0xb8/0xbd [scsi_mod] Feb 18 22:30:18 fgrbhw01 kernel: [<f8860ab6>] scsi_softirq+0x109/0x128 [scsi_mod] [<c0127098>] __do_softirq+0x58/0xc2 Feb 18 22:30:18 fgrbhw01 kernel: [<c0105f75>] do_softirq+0x46/0x4e Feb 18 22:30:18 fgrbhw01 kernel: ======================= Feb 18 22:30:18 fgrbhw01 kernel: [<c0105e9a>] do_IRQ+0x72/0x7b [<c01048fe>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 Feb 18 22:30:18 fgrbhw01 kernel: [<f88c940b>] ext3_get_block_handle+0x0/0x2a5 [ext3] [<f88c9714>] ext3_get_block+0x64/0x6c [ext3] Feb 18 22:30:18 fgrbhw01 kernel: [<f88c9f0f>] ext3_bmap+0x0/0x6d [ext3] [<c0165dec>] generic_block_bmap+0x28/0x35 Feb 18 22:30:18 fgrbhw01 kernel: [<c02f599a>] io_schedule+0x26/0x30 [<c02f5cd3>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit_lock+0x75/0x7d Feb 18 22:30:18 fgrbhw01 kernel: [<c01631d3>] sync_buffer+0x0/0x33 [<f88c9f75>] ext3_bmap+0x66/0x6d [ext3] Feb 18 22:30:18 fgrbhw01 kernel: [<f88c96b0>] ext3_get_block+0x0/0x6c [ext3] [<f88c9f0f>] ext3_bmap+0x0/0x6d [ext3] Feb 18 22:30:18 fgrbhw01 kernel: [<c0178e14>] bmap+0x23/0x27 [<f88961e9>] journal_bmap+0x1d/0x64 [jbd] Feb 18 22:30:18 fgrbhw01 kernel: [<c01347cd>] wake_bit_function+0x0/0x3c [<c014d9a2>] cache_free_debugcheck+0x1b1/0x1b9 Feb 18 22:30:18 fgrbhw01 kernel: [<f88961bd>] journal_next_log_block+0x74/0x83 [jbd] [<f889623f>] journal_get_descriptor_buffer+0xf/0x8d [jbd] Feb 18 22:30:19 fgrbhw01 kernel: [<f8893709>] journal_commit_transaction+0x61c/0xdbf [jbd] [<c02f6269>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x9/0xd Feb 18 22:30:19 fgrbhw01 kernel: [<c012a32b>] try_to_del_timer_sync+0x44/0x4a [<f88959aa>] kjournald+0xbd/0x20e [jbd] Feb 18 22:30:19 fgrbhw01 kernel: [<c011d4c9>] schedule_tail+0x36/0x8b [<f88958e8>] commit_timeout+0x0/0x5 [jbd] Feb 18 22:30:19 fgrbhw01 kernel: [<c01347a0>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d [<f88958ed>] kjournald+0x0/0x20e [jbd] Feb 18 22:30:19 fgrbhw01 kernel: [<c01023a9>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Feb 18 22:30:19 fgrbhw01 kernel: f3fa3888: redzone 1: 0x170fc2a5, redzone 2: 0xc01485d0. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html