Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Apr 2017 08:41:25 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: Add additional consistency check |
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On Mon 17-04-17 10:22:29, Cristopher Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 11 Apr 2017, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > On Tue 11-04-17 13:59:44, Cristopher Lameter wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Apr 2017, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > > > > I didn't say anything like that. Hence the proposed patch which still > > > > needs some more thinking and evaluation. > > > > > > This patch does not even affect kfree(). > > > > Ehm? Are we even talking about the same thing? The whole discussion was > > to catch invalid pointers to _kfree_ and why BUG* is not the best way to > > handle that. > > The patch does not do that. See my review. Invalid points to kfree are > already caught with a bug on. See kfree in mm/slub.c
Are you even reading those emails? First of all we are talking about slab here. Secondly I've already pointed out that the BUG_ON(!PageSlab) in kmem_freepages is already too late because we do operate on a potential garbage from invalid page... -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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