linux-kernel - Re: 3.6rc6 slab corruption.

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFzZvFeCLF8fw=NYFN7C_8ObwJMeK13bN8xRodKQ0QJkTQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:49:52 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Suzuki Poulose <suzuki@...ibm.com>,
	Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 3.6rc6 slab corruption.

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
<konrad.wilk@...cle.com> wrote:
>
> 30 words. ~360 + 29 spaces + NULL = 390?

Just allocate the max then. That's tiny.

And it's actually just 330: max ten characters for an unsigned 32-bit number.

          Linus
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