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On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Yes, I don't think the sub changes are ready for prime-time.

At this point there is no tie in with slub changes. This is 
freepointer corruption that is typical for writing to the object after 
free it. Enabling slub debugging is needed to figure out when the object 
was overwritten.