On 2021/9/28 23:43, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 03:53:47PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
On 2021/9/27 15:22, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
On 9/27/21 04:15, Kefeng Wang wrote:
After commit ("f227f0faf63b slub: fix unreclaimable slab stat for bulk
free"), the check for free nonslab page is replaced by VM_BUG_ON_PAGE,
which only check with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM enabled, but this config may
impact performance, so it only for debug.
Commit ("0937502af7c9 slub: Add check for kfree() of non slab objects.")
add the ability, which should be needed in any configs to catch the
invalid free, they even could be potential issue, eg, memory corruption,
use after free and double-free, so replace VM_BUG_ON_PAGE to WARN_ON, and
add dump_page() to help use to debug the issue.
There are other situations in SLUB (such as with smaller allocations that
don't go directly to page allocator) where use after free and double-free
are undetected in non-debug configs, and it's expected that anyone debugging
them will enable slub_debug or even DEBUG_VM. Why should this special case
with nonslab pages be different?
I want the check back in kfree, this one is used widely in driver, and the
probability
of problem occurred is bigger in driver, especially in some out of tree
drivers.
Why would we want to improve life for out of tree drivers? Drivers should
be in-tree. That's been the Linux Way for thirty years.
I remain sceptical that dump_page() is actually useful for debugging
drivers anyway. dump_stack(), I could see -- that'll tell you which
driver called kfree() on a bogus pointer. But how does dump_page() help?
Add dump_page here because it could help us debug for memory corruption,
if we think it is redundant, I could drop it in the next version.
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