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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] slub: fix leakage
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > >
> > > > Which fixes the leakage: Objects and Partials then remain stable.
> > >
> > > Well this code is just an optimization for a rare case.
> > > Your patch may not handle the debug situation the right way.
> >
> > Oh? How?
>
> If SLAB_DEBUG is set then your patch does not do the proper checks for the
> object, tracing information is not written and the poisoning is not done.
> See alloc_debug_processing().

Yup, you're right, thanks.

I'll followup that version I CC'ed to stable,
to stop it and say you'll supply a corrected version.

Hugh
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