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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: 76306.1226@compuserve.com, torvalds@osdl.org,
	lee.schermerhorn@hp.com, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu,
	jesper.juhl@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	James.Bottomley@steeleye.com
Subject: Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:23:46 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <440EA2A2.3040601@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060308011254.6cc7a190.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:

> Well yes, Lee sent the fix to the guy who he got the kernel release from in
> the reasonable expectation that I'd take care of getting it to where it
> needed to be.
> 
> Problem is, a) I screwed up, b) James screwed up and c) someone just
> happened to change those few lines of code in that place within a few-day
> window.
> 
> That triple-combo doesn't happen very often.
> 

I guess what I'm advocating isn't foolproof either: the guy who wrote
the patch might die (knock on wood) ;)

Carry on.

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-08  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-08  6:25 Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2 Chuck Ebbert
2006-03-08  8:32 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-08  8:46   ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-08  9:02     ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-08  9:12       ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-08  9:23         ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-03-08 14:35           ` Lee Schermerhorn
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-06  0:17 Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 18:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-06 18:43   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 19:32     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-06 19:51       ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 19:58         ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 20:06       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-06 20:24         ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 20:30           ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-06 20:33             ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-06 21:14               ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 21:41             ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 21:55               ` Dave Jones
2006-03-06 21:57                 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-09 15:50                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-03-09 15:54                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-03-09 15:54                   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-09 16:04                     ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-03-09 16:08                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-09 16:41                     ` Dave Jones
2006-03-06 20:36         ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 20:53           ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 20:56             ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 21:07               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-06 21:16                 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 21:54                 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 22:05                   ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-06 22:08                     ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 22:27                       ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 22:17                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-06 22:34                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-06 22:52                       ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 22:54                       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-06 23:01                         ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 23:06                           ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-06 23:24                             ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-07  0:17                               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-07  0:25                                 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-07  3:15                               ` Mike Christie
2006-03-07  3:20                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-07 18:01                                   ` James Bottomley
2006-03-07 19:40                                     ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-07 19:28                       ` Bill Davidsen
2006-03-06 22:44                     ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-06 18:48   ` Mike Christie
2006-03-06 18:49     ` Mike Christie

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