On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This is sually something causing memory corruption. Please enable > > debugging to get backtrace that help to debutg this. CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON > > will do the trick or passing "slub_debug" on the kernel command line. > > The kernel was compiled with SLUB_DEBUG_ON, there's nothing coming out > of the slub before that hang message, nor after it. Ok looking at the backtrace: This is kmem_cache_destroy and not the usual failure following a pointer in alloc / free. netfilter calls kmem_cache_destroy which calls into sysfs functions and there the hang occurs. Did you try to see if lockdep can detect any serialization problems ? Is kmem_cache_destroy called with any locks held? Interrupts off? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html