Subject: Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2
From: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Reply-To: lee.schermerhorn@hp.com
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:35:50 -0500
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On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 20:23 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 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) ;)

Thanks, Nick.  I'll remember that...  See you at OLS?

Lee

P.S. ;-)

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