Re: kmemcheck caught read from freed memory (cfq_free_io_context)

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From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - 3:46 am

Hi Paul,

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

Yeah, that's what I thought too, that this is a SLUB bug but Peter
convinced me otherwise. SLUB keeps the _page_ around so the pointer
will be _valid_, although it might not be _your_ pointer so the caller
needs to do some validation step. Or at least that's how I understood
what Peter was saying.

                      Pekka
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Re: kmemcheck caught read from freed memory (cfq_free_io_c ..., Pekka Enberg, (Wed Apr 2, 3:46 am)
Re: kmemcheck caught read from freed memory (cfq_free_io_c ..., Christoph Lameter, (Wed Apr 2, 10:35 am)
Re: kmemcheck caught read from freed memory (cfq_free_io_c ..., Christoph Lameter, (Wed Apr 2, 10:36 am)