Hi Vlastimil, On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 4:44 PM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/20/24 16:14, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > On 11/20/24 07:03, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > >> On 11/20/24 13:49, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >>> On m68k, where the minimum alignment of unsigned long is 2 bytes: > >>> > >>> Kernel panic - not syncing: __kmem_cache_create_args: Failed to create slab 'io_kiocb'. Error -22 > >>> CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.12.0-atari-03776-g7eaa1f99261a #1783 > >>> Stack from 0102fe5c: > >>> 0102fe5c 00514a2b 00514a2b ffffff00 00000001 0051f5ed 00425e78 00514a2b > >>> 0041eb74 ffffffea 00000310 0051f5ed ffffffea ffffffea 00601f60 00000044 > >>> 0102ff20 000e7a68 0051ab8e 004383b8 0051f5ed ffffffea 000000b8 00000007 > >>> 01020c00 00000000 000e77f0 0041e5f0 005f67c0 0051f5ed 000000b6 0102fef4 > >>> 00000310 0102fef4 00000000 00000016 005f676c 0060a34c 00000010 00000004 > >>> 00000038 0000009a 01000000 000000b8 005f668e 0102e000 00001372 0102ff88 > >>> Call Trace: [<00425e78>] dump_stack+0xc/0x10 > >>> [<0041eb74>] panic+0xd8/0x26c > >>> [<000e7a68>] __kmem_cache_create_args+0x278/0x2e8 > >>> [<000e77f0>] __kmem_cache_create_args+0x0/0x2e8 > >>> [<0041e5f0>] memset+0x0/0x8c > >>> [<005f67c0>] io_uring_init+0x54/0xd2 > >>> > >>> The minimal alignment of an integral type may differ from its size, > >>> hence is not safe to assume that an arbitrary freeptr_t (which is > >>> basically an unsigned long) is always aligned to 4 or 8 bytes. > >>> > >>> As nothing seems to require the additional alignment, it is safe to fix > >>> this by relaxing the check to the actual minimum alignment of freeptr_t. > >>> > >>> Fixes: aaa736b186239b7d ("io_uring: specify freeptr usage for SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU io_kiocb cache") > >>> Fixes: d345bd2e9834e2da ("mm: add kmem_cache_create_rcu()") > >>> Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > >>> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/37c588d4-2c32-4aad-a19e-642961f200d7@xxxxxxxxxxxx > >>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> > >> Thanks, will add it to slab pull for 6.13. > >> > >>> --- > >>> mm/slab_common.c | 2 +- > >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > >>> > >>> diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c > >>> index 893d320599151845..f2f201d865c108bd 100644 > >>> --- a/mm/slab_common.c > >>> +++ b/mm/slab_common.c > >>> @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ static struct kmem_cache *create_cache(const char *name, > >>> if (args->use_freeptr_offset && > >>> (args->freeptr_offset >= object_size || > >>> !(flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU) || > >>> - !IS_ALIGNED(args->freeptr_offset, sizeof(freeptr_t)))) > >>> + !IS_ALIGNED(args->freeptr_offset, __alignof(freeptr_t)))) > >> > >> Seems only bunch of places uses __alignof but many use __alignoff__ and this > >> also is what seems to be documented? > > > > __alignoff__ -> __alignof__ > > Yeah I meant __alignof__ > Will chage it locally then. Thank you! Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds