From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eCryptfs - use page_alloc not kmalloc to get a page of memory
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:53:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080728125340.51b0b486@cuia.bos.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <488DF00F.3080809@redhat.com>
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:13:03 -0500
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> wrote:
> With SLUB debugging turned on in 2.6.26, I was getting memory corruption
> when testing eCryptfs. The root cause turned out to be that eCryptfs
> was doing kmalloc(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); virt_to_page() and treating that
> as a nice page-aligned chunk of memory.
uh oh
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-28 16:13 Eric Sandeen
2008-07-28 16:25 ` Michael Halcrow
2008-07-28 16:53 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2008-07-28 20:35 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-28 20:38 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-07-28 20:42 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-07-28 21:03 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-07-28 21:12 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-07-30 14:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-07-30 14:39 ` Christoph Lameter
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