Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:01:23 +0200 | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | Subject | Re: your mail |
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Hi Joerg,
On 2/5/07, Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> wrote: > Hmm, this seems to be the same issue as in [1] and [2]. A page that is > assumed to belong to the slab but is not longer marked as a slab page. > Could this be a bug in the memory management?
The BUG_ON triggers whenever you feed an invalid pointer to kfree() or kmem_cache_free() so I am guessing the caller is simply broken. Note that kernels prior to 2.6.18 would quietly corrupt the slab unless CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG was enabled which might explain why this hasn't been noticed before.
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