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SubjectRe: [patch] slub: fix per cpu kmem_cache_cpu array memory leak
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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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