Re: [PATCH] mm: Add additional consistency check

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2017, Michal Hocko wrote:

> Yes, but we do not have to blow the kernel, right? Why cannot we simply
> leak that memory?

Because it is a serious bug to attempt to free a non slab object using
slab operations. This is often the result of memory corruption, coding
errs etc. The system needs to stop right there.