From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
kay.sievers@vrfy.org, rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kobj refcounting weirdness
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 10:58:07 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090309165807.GU25995@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090309165010.GB32589@ldl.fc.hp.com>
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 10:50:10AM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote:
> I thought about the allocators returning a pointer to the same
> location that maybe has some valid looking data hanging around,
> but it's not wise for someone like me to go pointing fingers at
> the allocator before I've proven the bug isn't in my code. ;)
Slab poisoning would be the logical next thing to try to decide whether
the allocator is wrong or you're using it wrong ;-)
--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-09 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-09 6:36 kobj refcounting weirdness Alex Chiang
2009-03-09 15:04 ` Greg KH
2009-03-09 15:05 ` Greg KH
2009-03-09 16:50 ` Alex Chiang
2009-03-09 16:58 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2009-03-09 17:21 ` Alex Chiang
2009-03-09 18:01 ` Alex Chiang
2009-03-09 18:21 ` Vegard Nossum
2009-03-09 18:41 ` Alex Chiang
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