linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/slab.c: check pointer slabp before using it in alloc

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Date:	Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:35:35 +0000
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Ethan Zhao <ethan.kernel@...il.com>
cc:	alokk@...softinc.com, shobhit@...softinc.com, shai@...lex86.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/slab.c: check pointer slabp before using it in
 alloc_slabmgmt()

On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Ethan Zhao wrote:

>      No, stable 3.12.4 and 3.12.3 need this patch.  3.13RC doesn't
> need it anymore.

Hmmm.. Then this commit may have fixed it:

commit 0172f779e4314639a8ed440082cfe9e3450954e8
Author: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Date:   Wed Oct 30 19:04:00 2013 +0900

    slab: fix to calm down kmemleak warning

    After using struct page as slab management, we should not call
    kmemleak_scan_area(), since struct page isn't the tracking object of
    kmemleak. Without this patch and if CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK is enabled,
    so many kmemleak warnings are printed.

    Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
    Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@....fi>

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index af2db76..a8a9349 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -2531,14 +2531,6 @@ static struct freelist *alloc_slabmgmt(struct
kmem_cache *cachep,
                /* Slab management obj is off-slab. */
                freelist = kmem_cache_alloc_node(cachep->freelist_cache,
                                              local_flags, nodeid);
-               /*
-                * If the first object in the slab is leaked (it's allocated
-                * but no one has a reference to it), we want to make sure
-                * kmemleak does not treat the ->s_mem pointer as a reference
-                * to the object. Otherwise we will not report the leak.
-                */
-               kmemleak_scan_area(&page->lru, sizeof(struct list_head),
-                                  local_flags);
                if (!freelist)
                        return NULL;
        } else {


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