linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slub: Potential stack overflow

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Date:	Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:30:23 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: Potential stack overflow

Le mercredi 24 mars 2010 à 16:25 -0500, Christoph Lameter a écrit :
> Here is a patch for the second case. I think its better since it results
> in an error display and it avoids the alloc for each slab. Add this piece
> to your patch?

Yes, I did it

> 
> V1->V2 Fix missing kfree
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
> 
> ---
>  mm/slub.c |   13 ++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c	2010-03-24 16:23:19.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c	2010-03-24 16:24:21.000000000 -0500
> @@ -3648,10 +3648,10 @@ static int add_location(struct loc_track
>  }
> 
>  static void process_slab(struct loc_track *t, struct kmem_cache *s,
> -		struct page *page, enum track_item alloc)
> +		struct page *page, enum track_item alloc,
> +		unsigned long *map)
>  {
>  	void *addr = page_address(page);
> -	DECLARE_BITMAP(map, page->objects);
>  	void *p;
> 
>  	bitmap_zero(map, page->objects);
> @@ -3670,8 +3670,10 @@ static int list_locations(struct kmem_ca
>  	unsigned long i;
>  	struct loc_track t = { 0, 0, NULL };
>  	int node;
> +	unsigned long *map = kmalloc(BITS_TO_LONGS(oo_objects(s->max)) *
> +				sizeof(unsigned long), GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> -	if (!alloc_loc_track(&t, PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct location),
> +	if (!map || !alloc_loc_track(&t, PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct location),
>  			GFP_TEMPORARY))

I also added a kfree(map); here

>  		return sprintf(buf, "Out of memory\n");
> 
> @@ -3688,11 +3690,12 @@ static int list_locations(struct kmem_ca
> 
>  		spin_lock_irqsave(&n->list_lock, flags);
>  		list_for_each_entry(page, &n->partial, lru)
> -			process_slab(&t, s, page, alloc);
> +			process_slab(&t, s, page, alloc, map);
>  		list_for_each_entry(page, &n->full, lru)
> -			process_slab(&t, s, page, alloc);
> +			process_slab(&t, s, page, alloc, map);
>  		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&n->list_lock, flags);
>  	}
> +	kfree(map);
> 
>  	for (i = 0; i < t.count; i++) {
>  		struct location *l = &t.loc[i];
> --



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