Re: [Xen-devel] bug: slab corruption (net backend?)

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7 Jul 2005, at 12:35, Gerd Knorr wrote:

> Looks like xen allocates via kmem_cache_alloc() and releases via
> kfree(), which is illegal according to a comment in mm/slab.c
>
> Seems to work nevertheless, but maybe it's pure luck and we'll
> hit a bug sooner or later.  I'll try fix this and see if the
> problem goes away then ...
I think this works because kfree calls  kmem_cache_free after finding 
the cache pointer it has squirreled away. Where do we do this in 
XenLinux? Maybe there was a reason I did it that way. :-)
 -- Keir


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