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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711032007060.17942@blonde.wat.veritas.com>
Date:	Sat, 3 Nov 2007 20:10:52 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
cc:	Olivér Pintér <oliver.pntr@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] slub: fix leakage

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Later Christoph noticed that I'm not handling the SlabDebug case right.
> > > > So stable should ignore my patch, and he will come up with another.
> > > 
> > > Hmmm? I thought you wanted to test the patch provided?
> > 
> > Yes.  Sounds like you see a contradiction there - I don't see it.
> 
> Maybe language issues. I read this as meaning that there is no fix 
> available yet.

Neither of us has yet posted a correct patch which applies to 2.6.23
and 2.6.22.  I'm testing your 2.6.24-rc patch overnight, and if that's
fine then one of us will post the version for -stable.  I thought I'd
better leave that to you, after I've reported back.

Hugh
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