Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Apr 2017 21:42:21 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: Add additional consistency check |
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On Tue 04-04-17 14:13:06, Cristopher Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 4 Apr 2017, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > Yes, but we do not have to blow the kernel, right? Why cannot we simply > > leak that memory? > > Because it is a serious bug to attempt to free a non slab object using > slab operations. This is often the result of memory corruption, coding > errs etc. The system needs to stop right there.
Why when an alternative is a memory leak?
-- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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