linux-kernel - Re: Possible regression in "slab, slub: skip unnecessary kasan_cache

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Date:   Tue, 19 Jun 2018 15:04:56 +0200
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>, aryabinin@...tuozzo.com,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>, cl@...ux.com,
        penberg@...nel.org, rientjes@...gle.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@....com,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Possible regression in "slab, slub: skip unnecessary kasan_cache_shutdown()"

HI Dimitry,

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 6:55 AM Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com> wrote:
> Your code frees all entries before freeing the cache, right? If you
> add total_entries check before freeing the cache, it does not fire,
> right?

Yes, certainly.

> Are you using SLAB or SLUB? We stress kernel pretty heavily, but with
> SLAB, and I suspect Shakeel may also be using SLAB. So if you are
> using SLUB, there is significant chance that it's a bug in the SLUB
> part of the change.

Nice intuition; I am indeed using SLUB rather than SLAB...

Jason