This function is called from the debug code whenever a problem in debug_object_free is detected. Further it can be called from the debug checks in kfree/vfree, when an active object is detected from the debug_check_no_obj_freed() sanity checks.

Called from debug_object_free() or debug_check_no_obj_freed() when the object state is:

The function returns 1 when the fixup was successful, otherwise 0. The return value is used to update the statistics.