From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761980AbXGSUQy (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:16:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761325AbXGSUQZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:16:25 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:49266 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760576AbXGSUPT (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:15:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:09:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Ingo Molnar cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [patch] slub crashes with recent -git In-Reply-To: <20070719194234.GA27917@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <20070719194234.GA27917@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > i had to apply the patch below to make the kernel boot again. A better patch should be the appended. Does that work for you too? Linus --- mm/slub.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 52a4f44..322f3a5 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -2394,7 +2394,7 @@ size_t ksize(const void *object) struct page *page; struct kmem_cache *s; - if (object == ZERO_SIZE_PTR) + if (ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(object)) return 0; page = get_object_page(object);