There is a superfluous freeing of the slab name still in slub. Slab name freeing is handled by slab_common after this patch therefore this has to be dropped. Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c 2012-08-02 10:20:38.987659870 -0500 +++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c 2012-08-02 10:20:47.943820713 -0500 @@ -5188,7 +5188,6 @@ { struct kmem_cache *s = to_slab(kobj); - kfree(s->name); kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache, s); } -- 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>