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 Cool, yes, we have a commit there which addresses this: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux.git;a=commit;h=db265eca77000c5dafc5608975afe8dafb2a02d5 Thanks! johannes -- 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>