The patch titled
slub: add after object padding
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
slub-core-add-after-object-padding.patch
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Subject: slub: add after object padding
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
Without padding there is the danger that we do not notice writing before the
allocated object. So increase the slab size by another word in the debug
case. That will force the creation of some fill space which SLUB will
continue to check.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slub.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN mm/slub.c~slub-core-add-after-object-padding mm/slub.c
--- a/mm/slub.c~slub-core-add-after-object-padding
+++ a/mm/slub.c
@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ static int check_object(struct kmem_cach
if (s->flags & SLAB_POISON) {
if (!active && (s->flags & __OBJECT_POISON) &&
(!check_bytes(p, POISON_FREE, s->objsize - 1) ||
- p[s->objsize -1] != POISON_END)) {
+ p[s->objsize - 1] != POISON_END)) {
object_err(s, page, p, "Poison check failed");
return 0;
}
@@ -1596,6 +1596,15 @@ static int calculate_sizes(struct kmem_c
*/
size += 2 * sizeof(struct track);
+ if (flags & DEBUG_DEFAULT_FLAGS)
+ /*
+ * Add some empty padding so that we can catch
+ * overwrites from earlier objects rather than let
+ * tracking information or the free pointer be
+ * corrupted if an user writes before the start
+ * of the object.
+ */
+ size += sizeof(void *);
/*
* Determine the alignment based on various parameters that the
* user specified (this is unecessarily complex due to the attempt
_
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slab-ensure-cache_alloc_refill-terminates.patch
smaps-extract-pmd-walker-from-smaps-code.patch
smaps-add-pages-referenced-count-to-smaps.patch
smaps-add-clear_refs-file-to-clear-reference.patch
smaps-add-clear_refs-file-to-clear-reference-fix.patch
smaps-add-clear_refs-file-to-clear-reference-fix-fix.patch
slab-use-num_possible_cpus-in-enable_cpucache.patch
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i386-use-page-allocator-to-allocate-thread_info-structure.patch
slub-core.patch
slub-fix-numa-bootstrap.patch
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slub-treat-slab_hwcache_align-as-a-mininum-and-not-as-the-alignment.patch
slub-core-minor-fixes.patch
slub-core-use-enum-for-tracking-modes-instead-of-integers.patch
slub-core-fix-another-numa-bootstrap-issue.patch
slub-core-fix-object-counting.patch
slub-core-drop-version-number.patch
slub-core-tidy.patch
slub-core-tidy-2.patch
slub-core-tidy-3.patch
slub-core-tidy-4.patch
slub-core-tidy-5.patch
slub-core-tidy-6.patch
slub-core-tidy-7.patch
slub-core-tidy-8.patch
slub-core-tidy-9.patch
slub-core-we-do-not-need-ifdef-config_smp-around-bit-spinlocks.patch
slub-core-printk-facility-level-cleanup.patch
slub-core-kmem_cache_close-is-static-and-should-not-be-exported.patch
slub-core-add-explanation-for-defrag_ratio-=-100.patch
slub-core-add-explanation-for-locking.patch
slub-core-add-explanation-for-locking-fix.patch
slub-core-explain-the-64k-limits.patch
slub-core-explain-sizing-of-slabs-in-detail.patch
slub-core-explain-sizing-of-slabs-in-detail-fix.patch
slub-core-add-checks-for-interrupts-disabled.patch
slub-core-use-__print_symbol-instead-of-kallsyms_lookup.patch
slub-core-missing-inlines-and-statics.patch
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slub-extract-finish_bootstrap-function-for-clean-sysfs-boot.patch
slub-core-fix-kmem_cache_destroy.patch
slub-core-fix-validation.patch
slub-core-add-after-object-padding.patch
slub-core-resiliency-fixups.patch
slub-core-resiliency-fixups-fix.patch
slub-core-resiliency-test.patch
slub-add-slabinfo-tool.patch
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optimize-compound_head-by-avoiding-a-shared-page.patch
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slub-fix-object-tracking.patch
slub-enable-tracking-of-full-slabs.patch
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slub-add-ability-to-list-alloc--free-callers-per-slab.patch
slub-add-ability-to-list-alloc--free-callers-per-slab-tidy.patch
slub-user-documentation.patch
slub-user-documentation-fix.patch
slub-mm-only-make-slub-the-default-slab-allocator.patch
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