Re: [PATCH] eCryptfs - use page_alloc not kmalloc to get a page ofmemory

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Mon Jul 28 2008 - 13:11:23 EST


On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:13:03 -0500
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> With SLUB debugging turned on in 2.6.26, I was getting memory corruption
> when testing eCryptfs. The root cause turned out to be that eCryptfs
> was doing kmalloc(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); virt_to_page() and treating that
> as a nice page-aligned chunk of memory.

uh oh

> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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