Re: [PATCH] fs: fcntl_setlease defies lease_init assumptions

[Daniel Hokka Zakrisson]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok, I was actually really surprised that we'd ever allow a non-slab page 
> to be free'd as a slab or kmalloc allocation, without screaming very 
> loudly indeed. That implies a lack of some pretty fundamental sanity 
> checking by default in the slab layer (I suspect slab debugging turns it 
> on, but even without it, that's just nasty).
>
> Can you see if this trivial patch at least causes a honking huge 
> "kernel BUG" message to be triggered quickly?

It doesn't, at least not before the machine becomes unresponsive.

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Daniel Hokka Zakrisson
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