Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 16 May 2012 09:35:40 +0300 (EEST) | | From | Pekka Enberg <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] slub: fix a memory leak in get_partial_node() |
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<On Tue, 15 May 2012, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2012, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > > > In the case which is below, > > > > 1. acquire slab for cpu partial list > > 2. free object to it by remote cpu > > 3. page->freelist = t > > > > then memory leak is occurred. > > Hmmm... Ok so we cannot assign page->freelist in get_partial_node() for > the cpu partial slabs. It must be done in the cmpxchg transition. > > Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Joonsoo, can you please fix up the stable submission format, add Christoph's ACK and resend?
Pekka
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