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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-08-08 09:06:37 -0700 | 
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-08-08 09:06:37 -0700 | 
| commit | 370905069ce6515f38d5de0a5b1c899cbe58fe22 (patch) | |
| tree | 4838e5a5d97c5cc94330bc65249ee147ab93afae /drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpi/mpi2_init.h | |
| parent | b7bc9e7d808ba55729bd263b0210cda36965be32 (diff) | |
Revert "slub: do not put a slab to cpu partial list when cpu_partial is 0"
This reverts commit 318df36e57c0ca9f2146660d41ff28e8650af423.
This commit caused Steven Rostedt's hackbench runs to run out of memory
due to a leak.  As noted by Joonsoo Kim, it is buggy in the following
scenario:
 "I guess, you may set 0 to all kmem caches's cpu_partial via sysfs,
  doesn't it?
  In this case, memory leak is possible in following case.  Code flow of
  possible leak is follwing case.
   * in __slab_free()
   1. (!new.inuse || !prior) && !was_frozen
   2. !kmem_cache_debug && !prior
   3. new.frozen = 1
   4. after cmpxchg_double_slab, run the (!n) case with new.frozen=1
   5. with this patch, put_cpu_partial() doesn't do anything,
      because this cache's cpu_partial is 0
   6. return
  In step 5, leak occur"
And Steven does indeed have cpu_partial set to 0 due to RT testing.
Joonsoo is cooking up a patch, but everybody agrees that reverting this
for now is the right thing to do.
Reported-and-bisected-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpi/mpi2_init.h')
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