Re: Possible regression in "slab, slub: skip unnecessary kasan_cache_shutdown()"

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HI Dimitry,

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 6:55 AM Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Your code frees all entries before freeing the cache, right? If you
> add total_entries check before freeing the cache, it does not fire,
> right?

Yes, certainly.

> Are you using SLAB or SLUB? We stress kernel pretty heavily, but with
> SLAB, and I suspect Shakeel may also be using SLAB. So if you are
> using SLUB, there is significant chance that it's a bug in the SLUB
> part of the change.

Nice intuition; I am indeed using SLUB rather than SLAB...

Jason




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