From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@suse.de>
To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Steven Hand <Steven.Hand@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: bug: slab corruption (net backend?)
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:22:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050707122242.GA31229@bytesex> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f9095f4e739734ec5b54796ebe6f31ae@cl.cam.ac.uk>
> >Looks like xen allocates via kmem_cache_alloc() and releases via
> >kfree(), which is illegal according to a comment in mm/slab.c
Actually this isn't in arch/xen code, so native linux probably
does the same.
> I think this works because kfree calls kmem_cache_free after finding
> the cache pointer it has squirreled away.
Hmm, maybe the comment is outdated then ...
Gerd
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panic("it works"); /* avoid being flooded with debug messages */
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-07 12:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-07 9:41 bug: slab corruption (net backend?) Gerd Knorr
2005-07-07 10:11 ` Steven Hand
2005-07-07 11:35 ` Gerd Knorr
2005-07-07 12:05 ` Keir Fraser
2005-07-07 12:22 ` Gerd Knorr [this message]
2005-07-07 12:48 ` Gerd Knorr
2005-07-07 13:17 ` Gerd Knorr
2005-07-07 14:05 ` Keir Fraser
2005-07-07 14:18 ` Gerd Knorr
2005-07-07 14:41 ` Gerd Knorr
2005-07-07 16:06 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2005-07-11 13:25 ` Gerd Knorr
2005-07-11 13:37 ` Keir Fraser
2005-07-11 14:29 ` Bin Ren
2005-07-07 15:54 ` Gerd Knorr
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