On Tue 11-04-17 13:59:44, Cristopher Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 11 Apr 2017, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > I didn't say anything like that. Hence the proposed patch which still > > needs some more thinking and evaluation. > > This patch does not even affect kfree().
Ehm? Are we even talking about the same thing? The whole discussion was to catch invalid pointers to _kfree_ and why BUG* is not the best way to handle that. > Could you start another > discussion thread where you discuss your suggestions for the changes in > the allocators and how we could go about this? I presume Kees will pursue http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170411141956.gp6...@dhcp22.suse.cz or something along those lines. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs