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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, hughd@google.com,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] mempolicy: Kill all mempolicy sharing
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 16:58:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FC68A08.7000708@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2vcjdjtr9.fsf@firstfloor.org>

(5/30/12 4:31 PM), Andi Kleen wrote:
> kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com writes:
>
>> From: KOSAKI Motohiro<kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
>>
>> Dave Jones' system call fuzz testing tool "trinity" triggered the following
>> bug error with slab debugging enabled
>
> We have to fix it properly sorry. There are users who benefit from it
> and just disabling it is not gonna fly.

Why? This patch doesn't make any user visible behavior change. I haven't
caught what does your "proper" mean.




  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-30 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-30  9:02 [PATCH 0/6] mempolicy memory corruption fixlet kosaki.motohiro
2012-05-30  9:02 ` [PATCH 1/6] Revert "mm: mempolicy: Let vma_merge and vma_split handle vma->vm_policy linkages" kosaki.motohiro
2012-05-30 19:17   ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-30 19:39     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-30 19:44       ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-31  6:49     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-30  9:02 ` [PATCH 2/6] mempolicy: Kill all mempolicy sharing kosaki.motohiro
2012-05-30 19:41   ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-30 19:46     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-30 19:48     ` Andi Kleen
2012-05-30 20:31   ` Andi Kleen
2012-05-30 20:58     ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
2012-05-30  9:02 ` [PATCH 3/6] mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace() kosaki.motohiro
2012-05-30  9:02 ` [PATCH 4/6] mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared_policy() kosaki.motohiro
2012-05-30  9:02 ` [PATCH 5/6] mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in alloc_pages_vma() kosaki.motohiro
2012-05-30 20:37   ` Andi Kleen
2012-05-30  9:02 ` [PATCH 6/6] MAINTAINERS: Added MEMPOLICY entry kosaki.motohiro
2012-05-30 19:27   ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-30 18:26 ` [PATCH 0/6] mempolicy memory corruption fixlet Linus Torvalds
2012-05-30 18:34   ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-30 18:46     ` Andi Kleen
2012-05-30 18:50       ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-30 19:32         ` Andi Kleen
2012-05-30 19:42           ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-30 19:52             ` Andi Kleen
2012-05-30 20:00               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-30 21:22                 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-05-30 21:25                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-30 19:54             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-30 20:10               ` Andi Kleen
2012-05-30 20:16                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-06-01  0:45                   ` david
2012-06-01 13:51                     ` Christoph Lameter
2012-06-01 19:31                       ` david
2012-06-01 19:37                         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-06-05 19:02                           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-05 19:17                             ` Andrew Morton
2012-06-06 19:10                               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-05-30 19:03     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-30 20:10   ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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