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

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi Linus,

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?

On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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?

No, I haven't tested the patch myself but here's one in proper format in 
case someone wants to test it.

			Pekka