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authorChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>2008-05-28 17:32:22 (GMT)
committerPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>2008-07-15 17:36:01 (GMT)
commit0937502af7c9b648ed4e884ccb7f504b01a005a1 (patch)
tree25ed40b554b3c5e5e8a34351b38ccffe336a1b40 /mm
parent4d3702b62e004172f44870763cf56793d8de0cbf (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-0937502af7c9b648ed4e884ccb7f504b01a005a1.tar.xz
slub: Add check for kfree() of non slab objects.
We can detect kfree()s on non slab objects by checking for PageCompound(). Works in the same way as for ksize. This helped me catch an invalid kfree(). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/slub.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 5f6e2c4..b3f2e71 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2766,6 +2766,7 @@ void kfree(const void *x)
page = virt_to_head_page(x);
if (unlikely(!PageSlab(page))) {
+ BUG_ON(!PageCompound(page));
put_page(page);
return;
}