Re: [PATCH] slab: deal with NULL pointers passed to kmem_cache_free

From: Pekka J Enberg
Date: Wed Mar 21 2007 - 07:43:25 EST


On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB is there in order to handle these nasty and hard to
> debug problems. Usually non-slab pages are not passed to kmem_cache_free.

Yeah, it's probably not a big deal for kmem_cache_free() but if we make
the BUG_ON CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB, kfree() loses it as well.

Pekka
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