This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
dm bufio: fully initialize shrinker
to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
dm-bufio-fully-initialize-shrinker.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From d8c712ea471ce7a4fd1734ad2211adf8469ddddc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 09:07:19 -0700
Subject: dm bufio: fully initialize shrinker
From: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit d8c712ea471ce7a4fd1734ad2211adf8469ddddc upstream.
1d3d4437eae1 ("vmscan: per-node deferred work") added a flags field to
struct shrinker assuming that all shrinkers were zero filled. The dm
bufio shrinker is not zero filled, which leaves arbitrary kmalloc() data
in flags. So far the only defined flags bit is SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE.
But there are proposed patches which add other bits to shrinker.flags
(e.g. memcg awareness).
Rather than simply initializing the shrinker, this patch uses kzalloc()
when allocating the dm_bufio_client to ensure that the embedded shrinker
and any other similar structures are zeroed.
This fixes theoretical over aggressive shrinking of dm bufio objects.
If the uninitialized dm_bufio_client.shrinker.flags contains
SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE then shrink_slab() would call the dm shrinker for
each numa node rather than just once. This has been broken since 3.12.
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
@@ -1541,7 +1541,7 @@ struct dm_bufio_client *dm_bufio_client_
BUG_ON(block_size < 1 << SECTOR_SHIFT ||
(block_size & (block_size - 1)));
- c = kmalloc(sizeof(*c), GFP_KERNEL);
+ c = kzalloc(sizeof(*c), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!c) {
r = -ENOMEM;
goto bad_client;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/dm-bufio-fully-initialize-shrinker.patch
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