The patch titled Subject: slub: Introduce CONFIG_SLUB_RCU_DEBUG has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is slub-introduce-config_slub_rcu_debug-v8.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/slub-introduce-config_slub_rcu_debug-v8.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: slub: Introduce CONFIG_SLUB_RCU_DEBUG Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 17:36:56 +0200 - move rcu_barrier() out of locked region (vbabka) - rearrange code in slab_free_after_rcu_debug (vbabka) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240809-kasan-tsbrcu-v8-2-aef4593f9532@xxxxxxxxxx Tested-by: syzbot+263726e59eab6b442723@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> (slab) Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slab_common.c | 22 +++++++++++++--------- mm/slub.c | 5 ++--- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) --- a/mm/slab_common.c~slub-introduce-config_slub_rcu_debug-v8 +++ a/mm/slab_common.c @@ -576,15 +576,6 @@ void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cach if (unlikely(!s) || !kasan_check_byte(s)) return; - cpus_read_lock(); - mutex_lock(&slab_mutex); - - rcu_set = s->flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU; - - s->refcount--; - if (s->refcount) - goto out_unlock; - if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SLUB_RCU_DEBUG) && (s->flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU)) { /* @@ -593,10 +584,23 @@ void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cach * defer their freeing with call_rcu(). * Wait for such call_rcu() invocations here before actually * destroying the cache. + * + * It doesn't matter that we haven't looked at the slab refcount + * yet - slabs with SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU can't be merged, so + * the refcount should be 1 here. */ rcu_barrier(); } + cpus_read_lock(); + mutex_lock(&slab_mutex); + + rcu_set = s->flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU; + + s->refcount--; + if (s->refcount) + goto out_unlock; + err = shutdown_cache(s); WARN(err, "%s %s: Slab cache still has objects when called from %pS", __func__, s->name, (void *)_RET_IP_); --- a/mm/slub.c~slub-introduce-config_slub_rcu_debug-v8 +++ a/mm/slub.c @@ -4563,9 +4563,8 @@ static void slab_free_after_rcu_debug(st return; /* resume freeing */ - if (!slab_free_hook(s, object, slab_want_init_on_free(s), true)) - return; - do_slab_free(s, slab, object, object, 1, _THIS_IP_); + if (slab_free_hook(s, object, slab_want_init_on_free(s), true)) + do_slab_free(s, slab, object, object, 1, _THIS_IP_); } #endif /* CONFIG_SLUB_RCU_DEBUG */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jannh@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-fix-harmless-type-confusion-in-lock_vma_under_rcu.patch kasan-catch-invalid-free-before-slub-reinitializes-the-object.patch slub-introduce-config_slub_rcu_debug.patch slub-introduce-config_slub_rcu_debug-v8.patch