From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
acme <acme@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Subject: Slab allocators: Remove kmem_cache_name() to fix invalid frees
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 12:51:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1211997084.31329.155.camel@calx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805281032290.22637@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
[Adding Arnaldo to cc:]
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 10:40 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Fix:
>
> Create special fields in the networking structs to store a pointer to
> names of slab generated. The pointer is then used to free the name of
> the slab after the slab was destroyed.
>
> Drop the support for kmem_cache_name from all slab allocators.
Seems it would be better to simply allow either unnamed caches or
duplicate cache names.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-28 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-28 17:40 Subject: Slab allocators: Remove kmem_cache_name() to fix invalid frees Christoph Lameter
2008-05-28 17:51 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2008-05-28 17:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-28 18:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-28 19:48 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-28 20:32 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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