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Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:20:57 -0500
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] SLOB's krealloc() seems bust
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Matt Mackall wrote:

> We can't dynamically determine whether a pointer points to a kmalloced
> object or not. kmem_cache_alloc objects have no header and live on the
> same pages as kmalloced ones.

Could you do a heuristic check? Assume that this is a kmalloc object and then
verify the values in the small control block? If the values are out of line
then this cannot be a kmalloc'ed object.



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