linux-kernel - Re: [patch] slub crashes with recent -git

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707191307220.27249@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:09:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Subject: Re: [patch] slub crashes with recent -git



On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> i had to apply the patch below to make the kernel boot again.

A better patch should be the appended. Does that work for you too?

		Linus
---
 mm/slub.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 52a4f44..322f3a5 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2394,7 +2394,7 @@ size_t ksize(const void *object)
 	struct page *page;
 	struct kmem_cache *s;
 
-	if (object == ZERO_SIZE_PTR)
+	if (ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(object))
 		return 0;
 
 	page = get_object_page(object);
-
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