Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix __GFP_ZERO vs constructor

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Wed Apr 11 2018 - 20:55:05 EST


Matthew,

Please Cced relevant people so they know what's going on the problem
they spent on much time. Everyone doesn't keep an eye on mailing list.

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 11:03:18PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> v1->v2:
> - Added review/ack tags (thanks!)
> - Switched the order of the patches
> - Reworded commit message of the patch which actually fixes the bug
> - Moved slab debug patches under CONFIG_DEBUG_VM to check _every_
> allocation and added checks in the slowpath for the allocations which
> end up allocating a page.
>
> Matthew Wilcox (2):
> Fix NULL pointer in page_cache_tree_insert
> slab: __GFP_ZERO is incompatible with a constructor
>
> mm/filemap.c | 9 ++++-----
> mm/slab.c | 7 ++++---
> mm/slab.h | 7 +++++++
> mm/slob.c | 4 +++-
> mm/slub.c | 5 +++--
> 5 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.16.3
>