linux-kernel - Re: 3.6rc6 slab corruption.

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Message-ID: <50591D09.9070307@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2012 06:46:57 +0530
From:	Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	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>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: 3.6rc6 slab corruption.

On 09/19/2012 02:19 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.
>

Okay, I think you meant 32*11 = 352 chars.

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