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Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2022 17:57:52 +0100
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>,
Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>
Cc: John Thomson <lists@...nthomson.fastmail.com.au>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] mm/slub: enable debugging memory wasting of
kmalloc
On 11/3/22 15:36, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 10:16:12PM +0800, Feng Tang wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 09:33:28AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> [...]
>> > >> AFAICS before this patch, we "survive" "kmem_cache *s" being NULL as
>> > >> slab_pre_alloc_hook() will happen to return NULL and we bail out from
>> > >> slab_alloc_node(). But this is a side-effect, not an intended protection.
>> > >> Also the CONFIG_TRACING variant of kmalloc_trace() would have called
>> > >> trace_kmalloc dereferencing s->size anyway even before this patch.
>> > >>
>> > >> I don't think we should add WARNS in the slab hot paths just to prevent this
>> > >> rare error of using slab too early. At most VM_WARN... would be acceptable
>> > >> but still not necessary as crashing immediately from a NULL pointer is
>> > >> sufficient.
>> > >>
>> > >> So IMHO mips should fix their soc init,
>> > >
>> > > Yes, for the mips fix, John has proposed to defer the calling of prom_soc_init(),
>> > > which looks reasonable.
>> > >
>> > >> and we should look into the
>> > >> CONFIG_TRACING=n variant of kmalloc_trace(), to pass orig_size properly.
>> > >
>> > > You mean check if the pointer is NULL and bail out early.
>> >
>> > No I mean here:
>> >
>> > #else /* CONFIG_TRACING */
>> > /* Save a function call when CONFIG_TRACING=n */
>> > static __always_inline __alloc_size(3)
>> > void *kmalloc_trace(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, size_t size)
>> > {
>> > void *ret = kmem_cache_alloc(s, flags);
>> >
>> > ret = kasan_kmalloc(s, ret, size, flags);
>> > return ret;
>> > }
>> >
>> > we call kmem_cache_alloc() and discard the size parameter, so it will assume
>> > s->object_size (and as the side-effect, crash if s is NULL). We shouldn't
>> > add "s is NULL?" checks, but fix passing the size - probably switch to
>> > __kmem_cache_alloc_node()? and in the following kmalloc_node_trace() analogically.
>>
>> Got it, thanks! I might have missed it during some rebasing for the
>> kmalloc wastage debug patch.
>
> That was good catch and I missed too!
> But FYI I'm suggesting to drop CONFIG_TRACING=n variant:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20221101222520.never.109-kees@kernel.org/T/#m20ecf14390e406247bde0ea9cce368f469c539ed
>
> Any thoughts?
I'll get to it, also I think we were pondering that within your series too,
but I wanted to postpone in case somebody objects to the extra function call
it creates.
But that would be for 6.2 anyway while I'll collect the fix here for 6.1.
>>
>> How about the following fix?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Feng
>>
>> ---
>> From 9f9fa9da8946fd44625f873c0f51167357075be1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>
>> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2022 21:32:10 +0800
>> Subject: [PATCH] mm/slub: Add missing orig_size parameter for wastage debug
>>
>> commit 6edf2576a6cc ("mm/slub: enable debugging memory wasting of
>> kmalloc") was introduced for debugging kmalloc memory wastage,
>> and it missed to pass the original request size for kmalloc_trace()
>> and kmalloc_node_trace() in CONFIG_TRACING=n path.
>>
>> Fix it by using __kmem_cache_alloc_node() with correct original
>> request size.
>>
>> Fixes: 6edf2576a6cc ("mm/slub: enable debugging memory wasting of kmalloc")
>> Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
>> Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>
>> ---
>> include/linux/slab.h | 9 +++++++--
>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
>> index 90877fcde70b..9691afa569e1 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/slab.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/slab.h
>> @@ -469,6 +469,9 @@ void *__kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node) __assume_kmalloc_alignm
>> __alloc_size(1);
>> void *kmem_cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node) __assume_slab_alignment
>> __malloc;
>> +void *__kmem_cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node,
>> + size_t orig_size, unsigned long caller) __assume_slab_alignment
>> + __malloc;
>>
>> #ifdef CONFIG_TRACING
>> void *kmalloc_trace(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, size_t size)
>> @@ -482,7 +485,8 @@ void *kmalloc_node_trace(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags,
>> static __always_inline __alloc_size(3)
>> void *kmalloc_trace(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, size_t size)
>> {
>> - void *ret = kmem_cache_alloc(s, flags);
>> + void *ret = __kmem_cache_alloc_node(s, flags, NUMA_NO_NODE,
>> + size, _RET_IP_);
>>
>> ret = kasan_kmalloc(s, ret, size, flags);
>> return ret;
>> @@ -492,7 +496,8 @@ static __always_inline __alloc_size(4)
>> void *kmalloc_node_trace(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags,
>> int node, size_t size)
>> {
>> - void *ret = kmem_cache_alloc_node(s, gfpflags, node);
>> + void *ret = __kmem_cache_alloc_node(s, gfpflags, node,
>> + size, _RET_IP_);
>>
>> ret = kasan_kmalloc(s, ret, size, gfpflags);
>> return ret;
>> --
>> 2.34.1
>>
>>
>>
>
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