linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: fix sense

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Date:	Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:42:28 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: fix sense_slab/bio swapping livelock

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
>> So something like the following (totally untested) patch modulo the 
>> pre-allocation bits.

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Hmm. I didn't check, but won't this cause problems on the freeing path 
> when we call kmem_cache_free() on the result but with the wrong "struct 
> kmem_cache" pointer?

Aah, yes. I was thinking of kmalloc() here for which it works as 
expected because kfree() will return the page to the proper cache. But 
we can relax the rules of kmem_cache_free() a bit to make this work (but 
perhaps add a WARN_ON() there if cache doesn't match page->slab).

			Pekka
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