Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cpuset operations causes Badness at mm/slab.c:777 warning

Christoph Lameter
2007-06-01T22:20:39Z

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> If slab was smart enough, it would have poisoned those 8 bytes to some
> known pattern, and then checked that they still had that pattern when the
> memory got freed again.

So this is new feature request?

> But it isn't smart enough, so the bug went undetected.

I should make SLUB put poisoning values in unused areas of a kmalloced
object?