Re: [patch] slub: fix per cpu kmem_cache_cpu array memory leak

[Pekka Enberg]

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 18:59 -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> The per cpu array of kmem_cache_cpu structures accomodates
> NR_KMEM_CACHE_CPU such structs.
> 
> When this array overflows and a struct is allocated by kmalloc(), it may
> have an address at the upper bound of this array.  If this happens, it
> does not get freed and the per cpu kmem_cache_cpu_free pointer will be out
> of bounds after kmem_cache_destroy() or cpu offlining.
> 
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks!

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