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DateTue, 20 Mar 2007 09:06:41 +0200
From"Pekka Enberg" <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] slab: deal with NULL pointers passed to kmem_cache_free
On 3/19/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> The BUG_ON (at least) should probably be moved into CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB.

No it shouldn't. Letting non-slab pages pass through causes nasty and
hard to debug problems which is why we have the BUG_ONs in the first
place:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/8/101

                                           Pekka
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