On Wed, 23 May 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > [ 19.096577] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac > [ 21.650315] *** SLUB kmalloc-8: Redzone [EMAIL PROTECTED] slab 0xc528c530 > [ 21.657365] offset=3360 flags=0x400000c3 inuse=61 freelist=0xc90f6d58 > [ 21.664349] Bytes b4 0xc90f6d10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a > 5a 5a 5a ........ZZZZZZZZ > [ 21.674305] Object 0xc90f6d20: 31 30 31 39 2e 30 30 35 > 1019.005 > [ 21.684259] Redzone 0xc90f6d28: 00 cc cc cc > .ÿÿÿÿÿÿ
Ok. We are writing a string of length 8 to an object allocated via kmalloc(8). A string of 8 bytes needs a 0x00 at the end though. This makes it 9 bytes. The kmalloc should have been for 9 bytes!
