slub: Fix full list corruption if debugging is on
authorChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Mon, 8 Aug 2011 16:16:56 +0000 (11:16 -0500)
committerPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Tue, 9 Aug 2011 13:36:02 +0000 (16:36 +0300)
When a slab is freed by __slab_free() and the slab can only contain a
single object ever then it was full (and therefore not on the partial
lists but on the full list in the debug case) before we reached
slab_empty.

This caused the following full list corruption when SLUB debugging was enabled:

  [ 5913.233035] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [ 5913.233097] WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:53 __list_del_entry+0x8d/0x98()
  [ 5913.233101] Hardware name: Adamo 13
  [ 5913.233105] list_del corruption. prev->next should be ffffea000434fd20, but was ffffea0004199520
  [ 5913.233108] Modules linked in: nfs fscache fuse ebtable_nat ebtables ppdev parport_pc lp parport ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat nfsd lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss xt_CHECKSUM sunrpc iptable_mangle bridge stp llc cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq freq_table mperf ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables rfcomm bnep arc4 iwlagn snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_idt snd_hda_intel btusb mac80211 snd_hda_codec bluetooth snd_hwdep snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm usb_debug dell_wmi sparse_keymap cdc_ether usbnet cdc_acm uvcvideo cdc_wdm mii cfg80211 snd_timer dell_laptop videodev dcdbas snd microcode v4l2_compat_ioctl32 soundcore joydev tg3 pcspkr snd_page_alloc iTCO_wdt i2c_i801 rfkill iTCO_vendor_support wmi virtio_net kvm_intel kvm ipv6 xts gf128mul dm_crypt i915 drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit i2c_core video [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
  [ 5913.233213] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.0.0+ #127
  [ 5913.233213] Call Trace:
  [ 5913.233213]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff8105df18>] warn_slowpath_common+0x83/0x9b
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff8105dfd3>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x48
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff8127e7c1>] __list_del_entry+0x8d/0x98
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff8127e7da>] list_del+0xe/0x2d
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff814e0430>] __slab_free+0x1db/0x235
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff811706ab>] ? bvec_free_bs+0x35/0x37
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff811706ab>] ? bvec_free_bs+0x35/0x37
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff811706ab>] ? bvec_free_bs+0x35/0x37
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff81133085>] kmem_cache_free+0x88/0x102
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff811706ab>] bvec_free_bs+0x35/0x37
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff811706e1>] bio_free+0x34/0x64
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff813dc390>] dm_bio_destructor+0x12/0x14
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff8116fef6>] bio_put+0x2b/0x2d
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff813dccab>] clone_endio+0x9e/0xb4
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffff8116f7dd>] bio_endio+0x2d/0x2f
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffffa00148da>] crypt_dec_pending+0x5c/0x8b [dm_crypt]
  [ 5913.233213]  [<ffffffffa00150a9>] crypt_endio+0x78/0x81 [dm_crypt]

[ Full discussion here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/4/375 ]

Make sure that we remove such a slab also from the full lists.

Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
mm/slub.c

index eb5a8f93338a1819d026dedf71d9db452c3c62cf..5436fe2fbf9c51d1a79cd9bc93449afe18fbf5fc 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2387,11 +2387,13 @@ static void __slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page,
 slab_empty:
        if (prior) {
                /*
-                * Slab still on the partial list.
+                * Slab on the partial list.
                 */
                remove_partial(n, page);
                stat(s, FREE_REMOVE_PARTIAL);
-       }
+       } else
+               /* Slab must be on the full list */
+               remove_full(s, page);
 
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&n->list_lock, flags);
        stat(s, FREE_SLAB);