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Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 12:47:50 +0300
From: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
To: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm v2 1/3] slub: never fail to shrink cache
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Hi,

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 10:55:15PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> It seems that this patch causes shrink to corrupt memory:

Yes, it does :-(

The fix can be found here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/11/347

It must have already been merged to the -mm tree:

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 02:14:54PM -0800, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> 
> The patch titled
>      Subject: slub: kmem_cache_shrink: fix crash due to uninitialized discard list
> has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
>      slub-never-fail-to-shrink-cache-init-discard-list-after-freeing-slabs.patch
> 
> This patch was dropped because it was folded into slub-never-fail-to-shrink-cache.patch

Thanks,
Vladimir