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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:40:01 +0400
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: fix confusing error messages in check_slab
From: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Min-Hua Chen <orca.chen@gmail.com>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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2014-11-24 20:17 GMT+03:00 Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>:
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, Min-Hua Chen wrote:
>
>> In check_slab, s->name is passed incorrectly to the error
>> messages. It will cause confusing error messages if the object
>> check fails. This patch fix this bug by removing s->name.
>
> I have seen a patch like thios before.
>

It's in -mm already
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-slub-fix-format-mismatches-in-slab_err-callers.patch

> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
>
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