Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 09:33:39 -0500 (CDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
To: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH RESEND -next 13/21] mm: slub: add allocation size
 field to struct kmem_cache
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On Wed, 9 Jul 2014, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:

> When caller creates new kmem_cache, requested size of kmem_cache
> will be stored in alloc_size. Later alloc_size will be used by
> kerenel address sanitizer to mark alloc_size of slab object as
> accessible and the rest of its size as redzone.

I think this patch is not needed since object_size == alloc_size right?
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