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slab: fix the type of the index on freelist index accessor

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Commit a41adfaa23 ("slab: introduce byte sized index for the freelist
of a slab") changes the size of freelist index and also changes
prototype of accessor function to freelist index.  And there was a
mistake.

The mistake is that although it changes the size of freelist index
correctly, it changes the size of the index of freelist index
incorrectly.  With patch, freelist index can be 1 byte or 2 bytes, that
means that num of object on on a slab can be more than 255.  So we need
more than 1 byte for the index to find the index of free object on
freelist.  But, above patch makes this index type 1 byte, so slab which
have more than 255 objects cannot work properly and in consequence of
it, the system cannot boot.

This issue was reported by Steven King on m68knommu which would use
2 bytes freelist index:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/16/433

To fix is easy.  To change the type of the index of freelist index on
accessor functions is enough to fix this bug.  Although 2 bytes is
enough, I use 4 bytes since it have no bad effect and make things more
easier.  This fix was suggested and tested by Steven in his original
report.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Reported-and-acked-by: Steven King <sfking@fdwdc.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Tested-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Tested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joonsoo Kim 2014-04-18 16:24:09 +09:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 2080cee435
commit 7cc68973c3
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -2572,13 +2572,13 @@ static void *alloc_slabmgmt(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
return freelist;
}
static inline freelist_idx_t get_free_obj(struct page *page, unsigned char idx)
static inline freelist_idx_t get_free_obj(struct page *page, unsigned int idx)
{
return ((freelist_idx_t *)page->freelist)[idx];
}
static inline void set_free_obj(struct page *page,
unsigned char idx, freelist_idx_t val)
unsigned int idx, freelist_idx_t val)
{
((freelist_idx_t *)(page->freelist))[idx] = val;
}