Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Apr 2017 14:13:06 -0500 (CDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: Add additional consistency check |
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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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