linux/mm
Christoph Lameter 3e374919b3 slab_common: Do not check for duplicate slab names
SLUB can alias multiple slab kmem_create_requests to one slab cache to save
memory and increase the cache hotness. As a result the name of the slab can be
stale. Only check the name for duplicates if we are in debug mode where we do
not merge multiple caches.

This fixes the following problem reported by Jonathan Brassow:

  The problem with kmem_cache* is this:

  *) Assume CONFIG_SLUB is set
  1) kmem_cache_create(name="foo-a")
  - creates new kmem_cache structure
  2) kmem_cache_create(name="foo-b")
  - If identical cache characteristics, it will be merged with the previously
    created cache associated with "foo-a".  The cache's refcount will be
    incremented and an alias will be created via sysfs_slab_alias().
  3) kmem_cache_destroy(<ptr>)
  - Attempting to destroy cache associated with "foo-a", but instead the
    refcount is simply decremented.  I don't even think the sysfs aliases are
    ever removed...
  4) kmem_cache_create(name="foo-a")
  - This FAILS because kmem_cache_sanity_check colides with the existing
    name ("foo-a") associated with the non-removed cache.

  This is a problem for RAID (specifically dm-raid) because the name used
  for the kmem_cache_create is ("raid%d-%p", level, mddev).  If the cache
  persists for long enough, the memory address of an old mddev will be
  reused for a new mddev - causing an identical formulation of the cache
  name.  Even though kmem_cache_destory had long ago been used to delete
  the old cache, the merging of caches has cause the name and cache of that
  old instance to be preserved and causes a colision (and thus failure) in
  kmem_cache_create().  I see this regularly in my testing.

Reported-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-09-28 09:47:41 +03:00
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backing-dev.c mm/backing-dev.c: check user buffer length before copying data to the related user buffer 2013-09-11 15:58:03 -07:00
balloon_compaction.c mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility 2012-12-11 17:22:26 -08:00
bootmem.c mm: kill free_all_bootmem_node() 2013-07-03 16:07:39 -07:00
bounce.c Merge branch 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2013-05-08 10:13:35 -07:00
cleancache.c mm: cleancache: clean up cleancache_enabled 2013-04-30 17:04:01 -07:00
compaction.c mm: compaction: do not compact pgdat for order-0 2013-09-11 15:57:55 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c dmapool: make DMAPOOL_DEBUG detect corruption of free marker 2012-12-11 17:22:24 -08:00
fadvise.c teach SYSCALL_DEFINE<n> how to deal with long long/unsigned long long 2013-03-03 22:46:22 -05:00
failslab.c
filemap_xip.c lift sb_start_write() out of ->write() 2013-04-09 14:12:56 -04:00
filemap.c mm: cleanup add_to_page_cache_locked() 2013-09-12 15:38:03 -07:00
fremap.c mm: save soft-dirty bits on file pages 2013-08-13 17:57:48 -07:00
frontswap.c frontswap: fix incorrect zeroing and allocation size for frontswap_map 2013-06-12 16:29:46 -07:00
highmem.c Some nice cleanups, and even a patch my wife did as a "live" demo for 2012-12-20 08:37:05 -08:00
huge_memory.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton) 2013-09-12 15:44:27 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c cgroup: pass around cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup in file methods 2013-08-08 20:11:24 -04:00
hugetlb.c mm: prepare to remove /proc/sys/vm/hugepages_treat_as_movable 2013-09-11 15:57:49 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c mm/hwpoison-inject.c: change permission of corrupt-pfn/unpoison-pfn to 0200 2013-09-11 15:58:11 -07:00
init-mm.c
internal.h mm: vmscan: fix do_try_to_free_pages() livelock 2013-09-11 15:58:01 -07:00
interval_tree.c mm: add CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_RB build option 2012-10-09 16:22:42 +09:00
Kconfig mm/Kconfig: add MMU dependency for MIGRATION. 2013-09-12 15:38:03 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c mm: replace strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul() 2013-09-11 15:57:11 -07:00
ksm.c mm: replace strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul() 2013-09-11 15:57:11 -07:00
list_lru.c list_lru: dynamically adjust node arrays 2013-09-10 18:56:32 -04:00
maccess.c
madvise.c mm/madvise.c:madvise_hwpoison(): remove local `ret' 2013-09-11 15:58:13 -07:00
Makefile list: add a new LRU list type 2013-09-10 18:56:30 -04:00
memblock.c memblock, numa: binary search node id 2013-09-11 15:57:51 -07:00
memcontrol.c memcg: add per cgroup writeback pages accounting 2013-09-12 15:38:02 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c ACPI and power management fixes for 3.12-rc1 2013-09-12 11:22:45 -07:00
memory-failure.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-09-12 15:01:38 -07:00
memory.c thp: consolidate code between handle_mm_fault() and do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page() 2013-09-12 15:38:03 -07:00
mempolicy.c mbind: add BUG_ON(!vma) in new_vma_page() 2013-09-11 15:57:50 -07:00
mempool.c mm/mempool.c: convert kmalloc_node(...GFP_ZERO...) to kzalloc_node(...) 2013-09-11 15:58:14 -07:00
migrate.c Merge git://git.kvack.org/~bcrl/aio-next 2013-09-13 10:55:58 -07:00
mincore.c swap: make each swap partition have one address_space 2013-02-23 17:50:17 -08:00
mlock.c mm: munlock: manual pte walk in fast path instead of follow_page_mask() 2013-09-11 15:58:01 -07:00
mm_init.c mm: tune vm_committed_as percpu_counter batching size 2013-07-03 16:07:32 -07:00
mmap.c mm/mmap: remove unnecessary assignment 2013-09-11 15:58:13 -07:00
mmu_context.c mm: remove old aio use_mm() comment 2013-05-07 18:38:27 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c treewide: relase -> release 2013-06-28 14:34:33 +02:00
mmzone.c mm: rename page struct field helpers 2013-02-23 17:50:18 -08:00
mprotect.c mm/mprotect.c: coding-style cleanups 2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
mremap.c mm/mremap.c: call pud_free() after fail calling pmd_alloc() 2013-09-11 15:58:03 -07:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c mm: concentrate modification of totalram_pages into the mm core 2013-07-03 16:07:33 -07:00
nommu.c mm: remove free_area_cache 2013-07-10 18:11:34 -07:00
oom_kill.c mm: memcg: do not trap chargers with full callstack on OOM 2013-09-12 15:38:02 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm: correct the comment about the value for buddy _mapcount 2013-09-11 15:58:06 -07:00
page_cgroup.c memcontrol: use N_MEMORY instead N_HIGH_MEMORY 2012-12-12 17:38:32 -08:00
page_io.c aio: Kill aio_rw_vect_retry() 2013-07-30 11:53:12 -04:00
page_isolation.c mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage 2013-09-11 15:57:48 -07:00
page-writeback.c memcg: add per cgroup writeback pages accounting 2013-09-12 15:38:02 -07:00
pagewalk.c mm/pagewalk.c: walk_page_range should avoid VM_PFNMAP areas 2013-05-24 16:22:53 -07:00
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c mm, percpu: Make sure percpu_alloc early parameter has an argument 2012-12-02 06:23:04 -08:00
pgtable-generic.c mm: move pgtable related functions to right place 2013-09-11 15:57:30 -07:00
process_vm_access.c Fix: compat_rw_copy_check_uvector() misuse in aio, readv, writev, and security keys 2013-03-12 11:05:45 -07:00
quicklist.c
readahead.c readahead: make context readahead more conservative 2013-09-11 15:57:39 -07:00
rmap.c thp: account anon transparent huge pages into NR_ANON_PAGES 2013-09-12 15:38:03 -07:00
shmem.c initmpfs: make rootfs use tmpfs when CONFIG_TMPFS enabled 2013-09-11 15:59:37 -07:00
slab_common.c slab_common: Do not check for duplicate slab names 2013-09-28 09:47:41 +03:00
slab.c kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
slab.h memcg: check that kmem_cache has memcg_params before accessing it 2013-08-28 19:26:38 -07:00
slob.c mm/sl[aou]b: Move kmallocXXX functions to common code 2013-09-04 20:51:33 +03:00
slub.c Merge branch 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux 2013-09-15 07:15:06 -04:00
sparse-vmemmap.c sparse-vmemmap: specify vmemmap population range in bytes 2013-04-29 15:54:35 -07:00
sparse.c mm/sparse: introduce alloc_usemap_and_memmap 2013-09-11 15:58:01 -07:00
swap_state.c lib/radix-tree.c: make radix_tree_node_alloc() work correctly within interrupt 2013-09-11 15:59:36 -07:00
swap.c mm: make lru_add_drain_all() selective 2013-09-12 15:38:02 -07:00
swapfile.c swap: make cluster allocation per-cpu 2013-09-11 15:57:17 -07:00
truncate.c truncate: drop 'oldsize' truncate_pagecache() parameter 2013-09-12 15:38:02 -07:00
util.c swap: clean-up #ifdef in page_mapping() 2013-09-11 15:57:31 -07:00
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc: use wrapper function get_vm_area_size to caculate size of vm area 2013-09-11 15:58:02 -07:00
vmpressure.c Merge branch 'for-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2013-09-03 18:25:03 -07:00
vmscan.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton) 2013-09-12 15:44:27 -07:00
vmstat.c mm: vmscan: fix do_try_to_free_pages() livelock 2013-09-11 15:58:01 -07:00
zbud.c mm/zbud: fix some trivial typos in comments 2013-09-11 15:57:35 -07:00
zswap.c mm/zswap: use postorder iteration when destroying rbtree 2013-09-11 15:59:21 -07:00