The patch titled
Add VM_BUG_ON in case someone uses page_mapping on a slab page
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
add-vm_bug_on-in-case-someone-uses-page_mapping-on-a-slab-page.patch
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Subject: Add VM_BUG_ON in case someone uses page_mapping on a slab page
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
Detect slab objects being passed to the page oriented functions of the VM.
It is not sufficient to simply return NULL because the functions calling
page_mapping may depend on other items of the page_struct also to be setup
properly. Moreover slab object may not be properly aligned. The page
oriented functions of the VM expect to operate on page aligned, page sized
objects. Operations on object straddling page boundaries may only affect the
objects partially which may lead to surprising results.
It is better to detect eventually remaining uses and eliminate them.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff -puN include/linux/mm.h~add-vm_bug_on-in-case-someone-uses-page_mapping-on-a-slab-page include/linux/mm.h
--- a/include/linux/mm.h~add-vm_bug_on-in-case-someone-uses-page_mapping-on-a-slab-page
+++ a/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -629,6 +629,7 @@ static inline struct address_space *page
{
struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
+ VM_BUG_ON(PageSlab(page));
if (unlikely(PageSwapCache(page)))
mapping = &swapper_space;
else if (unlikely((unsigned long)mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_ANON))
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from clameter@xxxxxxx are
slub-fix-behavior-if-the-text-output-of-list_locations-overflows-page_size.patch
sched-fix-next_interval-determination-in-idle_balance.patch
slab-allocators-max_order-one-off-fix.patch
git-ubi.patch
pa-risc-use-page-allocator-instead-of-slab-allocator.patch
quicklist-support-for-x86_64.patch
change-zonelist-order-zonelist-order-selection-logic.patch
change-zonelist-order-zonelist-order-selection-logic-add-check_highest_zone-to-build_zonelists_in_zone_order.patch
change-zonelist-order-v6-zonelist-fix.patch
change-zonelist-order-auto-configuration.patch
change-zonelist-order-documentaion.patch
make-proc-slabinfo-use-seq_list_xxx-helpers.patch
make-proc-slabinfo-use-seq_list_xxx-helpers-fix.patch
remove-the-deprecated-kmem_cache_t-typedef-from-slabh.patch
slub-support-slub_debug-on-by-default.patch
slub-support-slub_debug-on-by-default-tidy.patch
numa-mempolicy-dynamic-interleave-map-for-system-init.patch
numa-mempolicy-trivial-debug-fixes.patch
add-__gfp_movable-for-callers-to-flag-allocations-from-high-memory-that-may-be-migrated.patch
group-short-lived-and-reclaimable-kernel-allocations.patch
fix-calculation-in-move_freepages_block-for-counting-pages.patch
breakout-page_order-to-internalh-to-avoid-special-knowledge-of-the-buddy-allocator.patch
do-not-depend-on-max_order-when-grouping-pages-by-mobility.patch
print-out-statistics-in-relation-to-fragmentation-avoidance-to-proc-pagetypeinfo.patch
have-kswapd-keep-a-minimum-order-free-other-than-order-0.patch
have-kswapd-keep-a-minimum-order-free-other-than-order-0-fix.patch
only-check-absolute-watermarks-for-alloc_high-and-alloc_harder-allocations.patch
slub-mm-only-make-slub-the-default-slab-allocator.patch
slub-exploit-page-mobility-to-increase-allocation-order.patch
slub-reduce-antifrag-max-order.patch
slub-reduce-antifrag-max-order-use-antifrag-constant-instead-of-hardcoding-page-order.patch
slub-change-error-reporting-format-to-follow-lockdep-loosely.patch
slub-change-error-reporting-format-to-follow-lockdep-loosely-fix.patch
slub-remove-useless-export_symbol.patch
slub-use-list_for_each_entry-for-loops-over-all-slabs.patch
slub-slab-validation-move-tracking-information-alloc-outside-of.patch
slub-ensure-that-the-object-per-slabs-stays-low-for-high-orders.patch
slub-debug-fix-initial-object-debug-state-of-numa-bootstrap-objects.patch
slab-allocators-consolidate-code-for-krealloc-in-mm-utilc.patch
slab-allocators-consistent-zero_size_ptr-support-and-null-result-semantics.patch
slab-allocators-support-__gfp_zero-in-all-allocators.patch
slab-allocators-cleanup-zeroing-allocations.patch
slab-allocators-replace-explicit-zeroing-with-__gfp_zero.patch
slub-add-some-more-inlines-and-ifdef-config_slub_debug.patch
slub-extract-dma_kmalloc_cache-from-get_cache.patch
slub-do-proper-locking-during-dma-slab-creation.patch
slub-faster-more-efficient-slab-determination-for-__kmalloc.patch
slub-faster-more-efficient-slab-determination-for-__kmalloc-fix.patch
add-vm_bug_on-in-case-someone-uses-page_mapping-on-a-slab-page.patch
define-config_bounce-to-avoid-useless-inclusion-of-bounce-buffer.patch
revoke-core-code.patch
mm-implement-swap-prefetching.patch
rename-gfp_high_movable-to-gfp_highuser_movable-prefetch.patch
cpuset-zero-malloc-revert-the-old-cpuset-fix.patch
containersv10-share-css_group-arrays-between-tasks-with-same-container-memberships-cpuset-zero-malloc-fix-for-new-containers.patch
print-out-page_owner-statistics-in-relation-to-fragmentation-avoidance.patch
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