Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>]

On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 19:20 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > should be added back I think.
> 
> Good eyes. I bet that's it.

Yes, well done.  Do we have confirmation yet that reversing this fixes
the bug?

I think a full reversal is in order, since buffer is a quantity being
written to, there's no point in zeroing it.

[Note to self: must do better in checking janitors patches]

James


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