From: David Rientjes Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:59:46 +0000 (-0800) Subject: slub: fix per cpu kmem_cache_cpu array memory leak X-Git-Tag: v2.6.29-rc4~66^2^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3718909448116bf4411445468c58acc946379f92;p=pandora-kernel.git slub: fix per cpu kmem_cache_cpu array memory leak The per cpu array of kmem_cache_cpu structures accomodates NR_KMEM_CACHE_CPU such structs. When this array overflows and a struct is allocated by kmalloc(), it may have an address at the upper bound of this array. If this happens, it does not get freed and the per cpu kmem_cache_cpu_free pointer will be out of bounds after kmem_cache_destroy() or cpu offlining. Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg --- Reading git-diff-tree failed