On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 01:48:32AM +0200, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > > Some of the reported SLOB issues have been actually real driver bugs, > that go unnoticed when SLUB/SLAB are used (unless perhaps debug stuff > is enabled). I'm not saying kernel should keep SLOB, but it's good at > failing early when there is a bug. See e.g. commit 120ee599b5bf ("staging: > octeon-usb: prevent memory corruption") Out of curiosity, are these bugs that would have been found using KASAN or some of the other kernel sanitizers and/or other debugging tools we have at our disposal? - Ted