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
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