Hi Alan, if you are going to apply patch I saw today morning on linux-kernel to disable redzoning on SLAB_HWCACHE aligned areas, drop this one into wastebasket. If not, please apply this. When CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB is enbled, dentries do not live on 16bytes boundary, but on x*8 + 4 :-( So I can validate only two low bits. This patch is for 2.4.2-ac13 with applied patch I sent just few minutes ago. Urban's smbfs has same problem, as it uses almost same validate code... Thanks, Petr Vandrovec [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux/fs/ncpfs/dir.c Wed Mar 7 22:40:12 2001 +++ linux/fs/ncpfs/dir.c Wed Mar 7 21:09:36 2001 @@ -332,7 +332,11 @@ { unsigned long dent_addr = (unsigned long) dentry; const unsigned long min_addr = PAGE_OFFSET; +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB + const unsigned long align_mask = 0x03; +#else const unsigned long align_mask = 0x0F; +#endif unsigned int len; if (dent_addr < min_addr) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/