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authorChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>2008-05-28 21:32:22 +0400
committerPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>2008-07-15 21:36:01 +0400
commit0937502af7c9b648ed4e884ccb7f504b01a005a1 (patch)
tree25ed40b554b3c5e5e8a34351b38ccffe336a1b40
parent4d3702b62e004172f44870763cf56793d8de0cbf (diff)
downloadlinux-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>
-rw-r--r--mm/slub.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 5f6e2c4a2ba7..b3f2e713cdf1 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;
}