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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 09:58:18 -0500 (CDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>
Subject: Re: list corruption in the last few days. (block ? crypto ?)
On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Christoph, I've been reading the code and spotted two potential issues in
> __slab_free(). The first one seems like an off-by-one where our comparison in
> deactivate_slab() doesn't match __slab_free.
Would not cause list corruption.
> The other one is remove_full() call in __slab_free() that can get called even
> if cache debugging is not enabled.
The checks for the debug flag are already done in remove_full().
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