patch-2.4.21 linux-2.4.21/mm/slab.c

• Lines: 22
• Date: 2003-06-13 07:51:39.000000000 -0700
• Orig file: linux-2.4.20/mm/slab.c
• Orig date: 2002-11-28 15:53:15.000000000 -0800

diff -urN linux-2.4.20/mm/slab.c linux-2.4.21/mm/slab.c
@@ -989,6 +989,8 @@
  * cache being allocated each time a module is loaded and unloaded, if the
  * module doesn't have persistent in-kernel storage across loads and unloads.
  *
+ * The cache must be empty before calling this function.
+ *
  * The caller must guarantee that noone will allocate memory from the cache
  * during the kmem_cache_destroy().
  */
@@ -1947,8 +1949,12 @@
 	name = cachep->name; 
 	{
 	char tmp; 
+	mm_segment_t	old_fs;
+	old_fs = get_fs();
+	set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
 	if (__get_user(tmp, name)) 
 		name = "broken"; 
+	set_fs(old_fs);
 	}       
 
 	seq_printf(m, "%-17s %6lu %6lu %6u %4lu %4lu %4u",