linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slab: Fix off by one in object max number tests.

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Date:	Mon, 5 May 2014 23:05:07 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, iamjoonsoo.kim@....com,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, hannes@...xchg.org, cl@...ux.com,
	penberg@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: Fix off by one in object max number tests.

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 04:57:56PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 16:20:04 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> > 
> > If freelist_idx_t is a byte, SLAB_OBJ_MAX_NUM should be 255 not 256,
> > and likewise if freelist_idx_t is a short, then it should be 65535 not
> > 65536.
> > 
> > Fixes: a41adfa ("slab: introduce byte sized index for the freelist of a slab")
> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> > ---
> > 
> > This was leading to all kinds of random crashes on sparc64 where PAGE_SIZE
> > is 8192.  One problem shown was that if spinlock debugging was enabled,
> > we'd get deadlocks in copy_pte_range() or do_wp_page() with the same cpu
> > already holding a lock it shouldn't hold, or the lock belonging to a
> > completely unrelated process.
> 
> It turns out that after some more testing, I'm still getting spinlock
> debugging problems with this fix applied.
> 
> The change is still very much correct I think, however.

There is a related patch in this area which I think is not yet applied.

See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/18/28

Maybe this is realted.

	Sam
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