Re: list corruption in the last few days. (block ? crypto ?)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Christoph, I've been reading the code and spotted two potential issues in
> __slab_free(). The first one seems like an off-by-one where our comparison
> in deactivate_slab() doesn't match __slab_free.
>
> The other one is remove_full() call in __slab_free() that can get called
> even if cache debugging is not enabled.
>
> Hmm?

I'd like to do -rc1 today, regardless of whether this fixes things or
not (-rc1 is already a few days delayed).

The patch seems to be a good fix, and a likely candidate for the
corruption. Commit log and sign-off? I assume you've given it some
testing, even if you couldn't reproduce the original issue?

                          Linus
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