[Bug 204371] BUG kmalloc-4k (Tainted: G W ): Object padding overwritten

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204371

--- Comment #4 from mpe at ellerman.id.au ---
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> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204371
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> --- Comment #2 from Andrew Morton (akpm at linux-foundation.org) ---
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> On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 22:35:48 +0000 bugzilla-daemon at bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
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>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204371
>> 
>>             Bug ID: 204371
>>            Summary: BUG kmalloc-4k (Tainted: G        W        ): Object
>>                     padding overwritten
>>            Product: Memory Management
>>            Version: 2.5
>>     Kernel Version: 5.3.0-rc2
>>           Hardware: PPC-32
>>                 OS: Linux
>>               Tree: Mainline
>>             Status: NEW
>>           Severity: normal
>>           Priority: P1
>>          Component: Slab Allocator
>>           Assignee: akpm at linux-foundation.org
>>           Reporter: erhard_f at mailbox.org
>>         Regression: No
>
> cc'ing various people here.
>
> I suspect proc_cgroup_show() is innocent and that perhaps
> bpf_prepare_filter() had a memory scribble.  iirc there has been at
> least one recent pretty serious bpf fix applied recently.  Can others
> please take a look?

I haven't been able to reproduce this on a 64-bit or 32-bit powerpc
machine here. But I don't run gentoo userspace, so I suspect I'm not
tripping the same path at boot. I did run the seccomp selftest and that
didn't trip it either.

cheers

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