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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] slub: fix leakage
    On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:

    > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
    > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
    > >
    > > > Which fixes the leakage: Objects and Partials then remain stable.
    > >
    > > Well this code is just an optimization for a rare case.
    > > Your patch may not handle the debug situation the right way.
    >
    > Oh? How?

    If SLAB_DEBUG is set then your patch does not do the proper checks for the
    object, tracing information is not written and the poisoning is not done.
    See alloc_debug_processing().

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