Re: [Xen-devel] bug: slab corruption (net backend?)

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11 Jul 2005, at 14:25, Gerd Knorr wrote:

> > Can you disable tcp checksum offload (ethtool -K tx off) and see
> > if you can reproduce this problem?
> Never seen that again since I've turned off CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG,
> which seems to be incompatible with the page mapping the xen
> backend drivers do.
Well, I'm not 100% sure of this. It looks like guard bytes aren;t 
placed around slab allocations when slab object size is near a power of 
two. But if guard header/footers are added to our skbuff data objects 
then yes: that will be broken for xen netback.
 -- Keir


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