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SubjectRe: [PATCH 03/15] kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Catalin Marinas wrote:

> OK, but is there a chance that an stale pointer remains in such caches?

Definitely. The pointers are never cleared. There are counters in the
caches that are used to index into an array.

> There seems to be the transfer_objects() function that moves pointers
> around but doesn't clear the source values.

No need to. The counter updates take care of things.



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