Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] slub: fix per cpu kmem_cache_cpu array memory leak | From | Pekka Enberg <> | Date | Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:27:44 +0200 |
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Hi David,
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > Btw, did you hit this bug during testing or did you just spot it > > during review? That is, do we need to get this to -stable?
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 01:20 -0800, David Rientjes wrote: > I ran into it while hacking the per cpu arrays, but haven't witnessed it > on a vanilla kernel. Since there are no guarantees that a kmem_cache_cpu > will not be allocated on this boundary, I would recommend it for -stable.
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt states that:
- It must fix a real bug that bothers people (not a, "This could be a problem..." type thing).
The bug has been there for a very long time and hasn't generated any bug reports so I think I'll just push it to mainline and leave it that.
Thanks!
Pekka
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