On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > Poisoning and redzoning could have caught that.
Redzoning would not have caught it. This was a kmalloc allocation and SLAB always gave them 32 bytes to play with. Only writes more than 32 bytes behind would have been caught. Poisoning is only applicable to unallocated objects and these were allocated. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
