Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: slab corruption in test9 (NFS related?) | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | 09 Nov 2003 23:36:00 -0500 |
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>>>>> " " == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> In other words, your patch certainly looks obviously correct, > but it also looks _so_ obviously correct that my alarm bells > are going off. If the code was quite that broken at counting > dentries, how the hell did it ever work AT ALL?
Given that d_free() now uses rcu, and hence defers the actual call to kmem_cache_free(), might that not suffice to explain why actual consequences are rare?
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