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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: Add additional consistency check
On Tue, 4 Apr 2017, Michal Hocko wrote:

> Yes, but we do not have to blow the kernel, right? Why cannot we simply
> leak that memory?

Because it is a serious bug to attempt to free a non slab object using
slab operations. This is often the result of memory corruption, coding
errs etc. The system needs to stop right there.

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