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To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] kernel BUG at slab.c:1402! -- 2.4.2-0.1.28
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Keith Owens wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 23:15:14 -0800,
> Greg Billock <greg@thebilberry.com> wrote:
> >Summary: Hotplugging a USB device causes an unrecoverable kernel Aiee!
> >
> >Copied from screen after interrupt handler killed, so sorry for
> >incompleteness. This
> >bug is reproducable so if necessary, I can try it again....
> 
> The complete oops report is required, and it needs to be run through
> ksymoops.  See Documentation/oops-tracing.txt.

It's a known problem, I think.  USB is incompatible
with slab redzoning.  Turn off `Debug memory allocation'
in the kernel hacking menu.