From: Christoph Lameter If no redzoning is selected then we do not need padding before the next object. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/slub.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/slub.c~slub-after-object-padding-only-needed-for-redzoning mm/slub.c --- a/mm/slub.c~slub-after-object-padding-only-needed-for-redzoning +++ a/mm/slub.c @@ -1656,7 +1656,7 @@ static int calculate_sizes(struct kmem_c */ size += 2 * sizeof(struct track); - if (flags & DEBUG_DEFAULT_FLAGS) + if (flags & SLAB_RED_ZONE) /* * Add some empty padding so that we can catch * overwrites from earlier objects rather than let _