On Tue 04-04-17 14:13:06, Cristopher Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 4 Apr 2017, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > Yes, but we do not have to blow the kernel, right? Why cannot we simply > > leak that memory? > > Because it is a serious bug to attempt to free a non slab object using > slab operations. This is often the result of memory corruption, coding > errs etc. The system needs to stop right there.
Why when an alternative is a memory leak? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
