From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
/*
* cpu_partial determined the maximum number of objects
* kept in the per cpu partial lists of a processor.
*/
Can't be negative.
I hit a real issue that it will result in a large number of memory leak.
Because Freeing slabs are in interrupt context. So it can trigger this issue.
put_cpu_partial can be interrupted more than once.
due to a union struct of lru and pobjects in struct page, when other core handles
page->lru list, for eaxmple, remove_partial in freeing slab code flow, It will
result in pobjects being a negative value(0xdead0000). Therefore, a large number
of slabs will be added to per_cpu partial list.
I had posted the issue to community before. The detailed issue description is as follows.
Link: https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2870979.html
After applying the patch, The issue is fixed. So the patch is a effective bugfix.
It should go into stable.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/slub_def.h | 3 ++-
mm/slub.c | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/slub_def.h b/include/linux/slub_def.h
index 3388511..9b681f2 100644
--- a/include/linux/slub_def.h
+++ b/include/linux/slub_def.h
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ struct kmem_cache {
int size; /* The size of an object including meta data */
int object_size; /* The size of an object without meta data */
int offset; /* Free pointer offset. */
- int cpu_partial; /* Number of per cpu partial objects to keep around */
+ /* Number of per cpu partial objects to keep around */
+ unsigned int cpu_partial;
struct kmem_cache_order_objects oo;
/* Allocation and freeing of slabs */
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 2284c43..c33b0e1 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1661,7 +1661,7 @@ static void *get_partial_node(struct kmem_cache *s, struct kmem_cache_node *n,
{
struct page *page, *page2;
void *object = NULL;
- int available = 0;
+ unsigned int available = 0;
int objects;
/*
@@ -4674,10 +4674,10 @@ static ssize_t cpu_partial_show(struct kmem_cache *s, char *buf)
static ssize_t cpu_partial_store(struct kmem_cache *s, const char *buf,
size_t length)
{
- unsigned long objects;
+ unsigned int objects;
int err;
- err = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &objects);
+ err = kstrtouint(buf, 10, &objects);
if (err)
return err;
if (objects && !kmem_cache_has_cpu_partial(s))
--
1.7.12.4
