On Sat, 20 May 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 12:52:03PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > This should be rewritten proper by adding a propagate() callback to those > > slub_attributes which must be propagated and avoid that insane conversion > > to and from ASCII > > Exactly.. > > >, but that's too large for a hot fix. > > What made this such a hot fix? Looks like this crap has been in > for quite a while. Well, having something in tree which uses stale or uninitialized buffers does justify a hot fix which can be easily backported to stable. Thanks, tglx -- 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>