linux-kernel - Re: mmotm 2008-12-09-15-24: memory corruption (bio slab)

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Message-ID: <493FD387.2030008@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:34:47 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmotm 2008-12-09-15-24: memory corruption (bio slab)

On 12/10/2008 03:30 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10 2008, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> But I notice that you are seeing this with bio-1, not bio-0. So this
>> must be the one of the pools created by md/dm. Does this help?
>>
>> I'll probably rework this a bit, perhaps we should just hide the back
>> padding functionality and force it to be used for vec inlining only.
>> Then it becomes invisible to the users.
> 
> Something like this, I'll fold it into the original patch.

Seems OK. The first patch fixes the issue, indeed. Thanks.
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