Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:20:05 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cpuset operations causes Badness at mm/slab.c:777 warning |
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> If slab was smart enough, it would have poisoned those 8 bytes to some > known pattern, and then checked that they still had that pattern when the > memory got freed again.
So this is new feature request?
> But it isn't smart enough, so the bug went undetected.
I should make SLUB put poisoning values in unused areas of a kmalloced object?
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