linux-kernel - Re: oops in slab/leaks

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Message-ID: <53479B7B.6050008@iki.fi>
Date:	Fri, 11 Apr 2014 10:36:27 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@....fi>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: oops in slab/leaks_show

On 03/11/2014 10:30 AM, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> ---------8<---------------------
>  From ff6fe77fb764ca5bf8705bf53d07d38e4111e84c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:14:25 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] slab: remove kernel_map_pages() optimization in slab
>   poisoning
>
> If CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC enables, slab poisoning functionality uses
> kernel_map_pages(), instead of real poisoning, to detect memory corruption
> with low overhead. But, in that case, slab leak detector trigger oops.
> Reason is that slab leak detector accesses all active objects, especially
> including objects in cpu slab caches to get the caller information.
> These objects are already unmapped via kernel_map_pages() to detect memory
> corruption, so oops could be triggered.
>
> Following is oops message reported from Dave.
>
> It blew up when something tried to read /proc/slab_allocators
> (Just cat it, and you should see the oops below)
>
>    Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
>    Modules linked in: fuse hidp snd_seq_dummy tun rfcomm bnep llc2 af_key can_raw ipt_ULOG can_bcm nfnetlink scsi_transport_iscsi nfc caif_socket caif af_802154 phonet af_rxrpc can pppoe pppox ppp_generic
>    +slhc irda crc_ccitt rds rose x25 atm netrom appletalk ipx p8023 psnap p8022 llc ax25 cfg80211 xfs coretemp hwmon x86_pkg_temp_thermal kvm_intel kvm crct10dif_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel
>    +libcrc32c usb_debug microcode snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic pcspkr btusb bluetooth 6lowpan_iphc rfkill snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm
>    +snd_timer e1000e snd ptp shpchp soundcore pps_core serio_raw
>    CPU: 1 PID: 9386 Comm: trinity-c33 Not tainted 3.14.0-rc5+ #131
>    task: ffff8801aa46e890 ti: ffff880076924000 task.ti: ffff880076924000
>    RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffaa1a8f4a>]  [<ffffffffaa1a8f4a>] handle_slab+0x8a/0x180
>    RSP: 0018:ffff880076925de0  EFLAGS: 00010002
>    RAX: 0000000000001000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000005ce85ce7
>    RDX: ffffea00079be100 RSI: 0000000000001000 RDI: ffff880107458000
>    RBP: ffff880076925e18 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
>    R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000000f R12: ffff8801e6f84000
>    R13: ffffea00079be100 R14: ffff880107458000 R15: ffff88022bb8d2c0
>    FS:  00007fb769e45740(0000) GS:ffff88024d040000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>    CR2: ffff8801e6f84ff8 CR3: 00000000a22db000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
>    DR0: 0000000002695000 DR1: 0000000002695000 DR2: 0000000000000000
>    DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000070602
>    Stack:
>     ffff8802339dcfc0 ffff88022bb8d2c0 ffff880107458000 ffff88022bb8d2c0
>     ffff8802339dd008 ffff8802339dcfc0 ffffea00079be100 ffff880076925e68
>     ffffffffaa1ad9be ffff880203fe4f00 ffff88022bb8d318 0000000076925e98
>    Call Trace:
>     [<ffffffffaa1ad9be>] leaks_show+0xce/0x240
>     [<ffffffffaa1e6c0e>] seq_read+0x28e/0x490
>     [<ffffffffaa23008d>] proc_reg_read+0x3d/0x80
>     [<ffffffffaa1c026b>] vfs_read+0x9b/0x160
>     [<ffffffffaa1c0d88>] SyS_read+0x58/0xb0
>     [<ffffffffaa7420aa>] tracesys+0xd4/0xd9
>    Code: f5 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 63 c8 44 3b 0c 8a 0f 84 e3 00 00 00 83 c0 01 44 39 c0 72 eb 41 f6 47 1a 01 0f 84 e9 00 00 00 89 f0 <4d> 8b 4c 04 f8 4d 85 c9 0f 84 88 00 00 00 49 8b 7e 08 4d 8d 46
>    RIP  [<ffffffffaa1a8f4a>] handle_slab+0x8a/0x180
>     RSP <ffff880076925de0>
>    CR2: ffff8801e6f84ff8
>
> There are two solutions to fix the problem. One is to disable
> CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK if CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y. The other is to remove
> kernel_map_pages() optimization in slab poisoning. I think that
> second one is better, since we can use all functionality with some more
> overhead. slab poisoning is already heavy operation, so adding more
> overhead doesn't weaken their value.
>
> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>

Joonsoo, can you please resend against slab/next? I'm seeing some 
rejects here.

- Pekka
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