linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.8 86/92] memcg: prevent memcg caches to be both OFF_SLAB & OBJFREELIST

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Date:   Thu, 17 Nov 2016 11:32:59 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
        Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.8 86/92] memcg: prevent memcg caches to be both OFF_SLAB & OBJFREELIST_SLAB

4.8-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>

commit f773e36de3d77c4000ca914c9d146f55f2fd51e8 upstream.

While testing OBJFREELIST_SLAB integration with pagealloc, we found a
bug where kmem_cache(sys) would be created with both CFLGS_OFF_SLAB &
CFLGS_OBJFREELIST_SLAB.  When it happened, critical allocations needed
for loading drivers or creating new caches will fail.

The original kmem_cache is created early making OFF_SLAB not possible.
When kmem_cache(sys) is created, OFF_SLAB is possible and if pagealloc
is enabled it will try to enable it first under certain conditions.
Given kmem_cache(sys) reuses the original flag, you can have both flags
at the same time resulting in allocation failures and odd behaviors.

This fix discards allocator specific flags from memcg before calling
create_cache.

The bug exists since 4.6-rc1 and affects testing debug pagealloc
configurations.

Fixes: b03a017bebc4 ("mm/slab: introduce new slab management type, OBJFREELIST_SLAB")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478553075-120242-1-git-send-email-thgarnie@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/slab_common.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -533,8 +533,8 @@ void memcg_create_kmem_cache(struct mem_
 
 	s = create_cache(cache_name, root_cache->object_size,
 			 root_cache->size, root_cache->align,
-			 root_cache->flags, root_cache->ctor,
-			 memcg, root_cache);
+			 root_cache->flags & CACHE_CREATE_MASK,
+			 root_cache->ctor, memcg, root_cache);
 	/*
 	 * If we could not create a memcg cache, do not complain, because
 	 * that's not critical at all as we can always proceed with the root