Re: 3.6rc6 slab corruption.

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:24 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>
>>       u32 elements;
>> +     struct mutex lock;
>
> This should be a spinlock.

I don't think it can be a spinlock since it needs to protect the
user-space accesses (which Konrad admittedly didn't do, but that's
just a bug)

            Linus
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