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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/4] Fix vmalloc regression
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 01:58:32AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:35:50PM -0200, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > Nick,
> >
> > This is the whole set of patches I was talking about.
> > Patch 3 is the one that in fact fixes the problem
> > Patches 1 and 2 are debugging aids I made use of, and could be possibly
> > useful to others
> > Patch 4 removes guard pages entirely for non-debug kernels, as we have already
> > previously discussed.
> >
> > Hope it's all fine.
>
> OK, these all look good, but I may only push 3/4 for Linus in this round,
> along with some of the changes from my patch that you tested as well.

Makes total sense.
>
> With the DEBUG_PAGEALLOC case, I have been thinking that we perhaps should
> turn off the lazy unmapping optimisation as well, so it catches use
> after free similarly to the page allocator... but probably it is a good
> idea at least to avoid the double-guard page for 2.6.28?

Makes sense. Maybe poisoning after free would also be useful?


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