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SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.25-rc2


On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> cmpxchg_local(&c->freelist, object, object[c->offset]) can succeed,
> while an interrupt came (on this cpu), and several allocations were done,
> and one free was performed at the end of this interruption, so 'object'
> was recycled.

I think you may well be right. This looks like a good clue.

I'll do the revert. I wanted either a confirmation that reveting it
actually fixes something, _or_ an actual bug description, and this seems
to be a quite possible case of the latter.

Linus



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