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Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 08:45:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
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Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH 9/9] mm: SLUB hardened usercopy
 support

On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Michael Ellerman wrote:

> > I wonder if this code should be using size_from_object() instead of s->size?
>
> Hmm, not sure. Who's SLUB maintainer? :)

Me.

s->size is the size of the whole object including debugging info etc.
ksize() gives you the actual usable size of an object.

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