Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932158AbWEHH5M (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 03:57:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751200AbWEHH5M (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 03:57:12 -0400 Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com ([195.54.107.70]:2762 "EHLO mxfep01.bredband.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751146AbWEHH5M (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2006 03:57:12 -0400 Message-ID: <445EF9F7.7080405@hozac.com> Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 09:57:43 +0200 From: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060501 Fedora/1.7.13-1.1.fc5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Steinbrink?= , greg@kroah.com, matthew@wil.cx Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: fcntl_setlease defies lease_init assumptions References: <445E80DD.9090507@hozac.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 823 Lines: 19 Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok, I was actually really surprised that we'd ever allow a non-slab page > to be free'd as a slab or kmalloc allocation, without screaming very > loudly indeed. That implies a lack of some pretty fundamental sanity > checking by default in the slab layer (I suspect slab debugging turns it > on, but even without it, that's just nasty). > > Can you see if this trivial patch at least causes a honking huge > "kernel BUG" message to be triggered quickly? It doesn't, at least not before the machine becomes unresponsive. -- Daniel Hokka Zakrisson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/