On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 10:50:10AM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote: > I thought about the allocators returning a pointer to the same > location that maybe has some valid looking data hanging around, > but it's not wise for someone like me to go pointing fingers at > the allocator before I've proven the bug isn't in my code. ;) Slab poisoning would be the logical next thing to try to decide whether the allocator is wrong or you're using it wrong ;-) -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html