On Tue, 4 Apr 2017, Michal Hocko wrote: > Yes, but we do not have to blow the kernel, right? Why cannot we simply > leak that memory? Because it is a serious bug to attempt to free a non slab object using slab operations. This is often the result of memory corruption, coding errs etc. The system needs to stop right there. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>