Re: [patch] slub: fix per cpu kmem_cache_cpu array memory leak

From: David Rientjes
Date: Wed Jan 28 2009 - 04:20:35 EST


On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Btw, did you hit this bug during testing or did you just spot it
> during review? That is, do we need to get this to -stable?
>

I ran into it while hacking the per cpu arrays, but haven't witnessed it
on a vanilla kernel. Since there are no guarantees that a kmem_cache_cpu
will not be allocated on this boundary, I would recommend it for -stable.
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