slob: fix memory corruption
Previously, it would be possible for prev->next to point to
&free_slob_pages, and thus we would try to move a list onto itself, and
bad things would happen.
It seems a bit hairy to be doing list operations with the list marker as
an entry, rather than a head, but...
this resolves the following crash:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9379
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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