linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] SLOB's krealloc() seems bust

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Date:	Wed, 8 Oct 2008 10:25:07 +0300
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	"Matt Mackall" <mpm@...enic.com>,
	"Nick Piggin" <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	"Christoph Lameter" <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	akpm <akpm@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] SLOB's krealloc() seems bust

Hi Peter,

On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 00:15 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
>> Damnit, how many ways can we get confused by these little details? I'll
>> spin a final version and run it against the test harness shortly.

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:
> So I'll wait with testing for the next version?

AFAICT, this should be fine:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/7/436

You need to revert the patch Linus already committed before applying
that though.

                            Pekka
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