Re: kobj refcounting weirdness

[Vegard Nossum]

2009/3/9 Alex Chiang <achiang@xxxxxx>:
> * Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx>:
>> On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 10:50:10AM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote:
>> > I thought about the allocators returning a pointer to the same
>> > location that maybe has some valid looking data hanging around,
>> > but it's not wise for someone like me to go pointing fingers at
>> > the allocator before I've proven the bug isn't in my code. ;)
>>
>> Slab poisoning would be the logical next thing to try to decide whether
>> the allocator is wrong or you're using it wrong ;-)
>
> We had a double free in the PCIe port driver. Removing the double
> free seems to fix my issue.
>
> The double free is only in Jesse's linux-next branch, so no need
> to worry about it in mainline/stable.

Hi,

Sorry for butting in, just wondering if I could have the patch to fix
the double free? :-)


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