Re: [PATCH] mm: fix lazy vmap purging (use-after-free error)

[Vegard Nossum]

2009/2/23 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hello, Vegard,
>
> Could you please try out the following patch?  I am not 100% confident
> of it on non-x86 architectures, nor during the time that non-boot CPUs
> start up (though this patch should not break non-boot CPUs any more than
> they might already be broken).

Hi!

This patch fixes it for me. Now I see the huge stream of call_rcu()s,
followed by a huge stream of kfrees() (after the list traversal has
completed).


Vegard

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