Re: slab vs. slub kmem cache name inconsistency

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Hi, Johannes.

2012/10/2 Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> I just noticed that slub's kmem_cache_create() will kstrdup() the name,
> while slab doesn't. That's a little confusing, since when you look at
> slub you can easily get away with passing a string you built on the
> stack, while that will then lead to very strange results (and possibly
> crashes?) with slab.

As far as I know, this issue is already fixed. However, fix for this
is not merged into mainline yet.
You can find the fix in common_for_cgroups branch of Pekka's git tree.

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux.git
slab/common-for-cgroups

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