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Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:23:46 +1100
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2
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Andrew Morton wrote:

> Well yes, Lee sent the fix to the guy who he got the kernel release from in
> the reasonable expectation that I'd take care of getting it to where it
> needed to be.
> 
> Problem is, a) I screwed up, b) James screwed up and c) someone just
> happened to change those few lines of code in that place within a few-day
> window.
> 
> That triple-combo doesn't happen very often.
> 

I guess what I'm advocating isn't foolproof either: the guy who wrote
the patch might die (knock on wood) ;)

Carry on.

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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