Re: [PATCH 1/2] slub: fix leakage

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Sat Nov 03 2007 - 15:26:26 EST


On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> >
> > > Which fixes the leakage: Objects and Partials then remain stable.
> >
> > Well this code is just an optimization for a rare case.
> > Your patch may not handle the debug situation the right way.
>
> Oh? How?

If SLAB_DEBUG is set then your patch does not do the proper checks for the
object, tracing information is not written and the poisoning is not done.
See alloc_debug_processing().

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