Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 4 authors, 2012-05-18

Re: [PATCH] slub: fix a memory leak in get_partial_node()

From: Christoph Lameter <hidden>
Date: 2012-05-15 20:36:57
Also in: lkml, stable

On Wed, 16 May 2012, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
In the case which is below,

1. acquire slab for cpu partial list
2. free object to it by remote cpu
3. page->freelist = t

then memory leak is occurred.
Hmmm... Ok so we cannot assign page->freelist in get_partial_node() for
the cpu partial slabs. It must be done in the cmpxchg transition.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <redacted>

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