linux-stable.git/mm/slab.c, branch linux-4.9.y

mm/slab.c: fix an infinite loop in leaks_show()

2019-06-22T06:17:13+00:00

[ Upstream commit 745e10146c31b1c6ed3326286704ae251b17f663 ]

"cat /proc/slab_allocators" could hang forever on SMP machines with
kmemleak or object debugging enabled due to other CPUs running do_drain()
will keep making kmemleak_object or debug_objects_cache dirty and unable
to escape the first loop in leaks_show(),

do {
	set_store_user_clean(cachep);
	drain_cpu_caches(cachep);
	...

} while (!is_store_user_clean(cachep));

For example,

do_drain
  slabs_destroy
    slab_destroy
      kmem_cache_free
        __cache_free
          ___cache_free
            kmemleak_free_recursive
              delete_object_full
                __delete_object
                  put_object
                    free_object_rcu
                      kmem_cache_free
                        cache_free_debugcheck --> dirty kmemleak_object

One approach is to check cachep->name and skip both kmemleak_object and
debug_objects_cache in leaks_show().  The other is to set store_user_clean
after drain_cpu_caches() which leaves a small window between
drain_cpu_caches() and set_store_user_clean() where per-CPU caches could
be dirty again lead to slightly wrong information has been stored but
could also speed up things significantly which sounds like a good
compromise.  For example,

 # cat /proc/slab_allocators
 0m42.778s # 1st approach
 0m0.737s  # 2nd approach

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190411032635.10325-1-cai@lca.pw
Fixes: d31676dfde25 ("mm/slab: alternative implementation for DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK")
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mm/slab.c: kmemleak no scan alien caches

2019-04-05T20:29:07+00:00

[ Upstream commit 92d1d07daad65c300c7d0b68bbef8867e9895d54 ]

Kmemleak throws endless warnings during boot due to in
__alloc_alien_cache(),

    alc = kmalloc_node(memsize, gfp, node);
    init_arraycache(&alc->ac, entries, batch);
    kmemleak_no_scan(ac);

Kmemleak does not track the array cache (alc->ac) but the alien cache
(alc) instead, so let it track the latter by lifting kmemleak_no_scan()
out of init_arraycache().

There is another place that calls init_arraycache(), but
alloc_kmem_cache_cpus() uses the percpu allocation where will never be
considered as a leak.

  kmemleak: Found object by alias at 0xffff8007b9aa7e38
  CPU: 190 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.0.0-rc2+ #2
  Call trace:
   dump_backtrace+0x0/0x168
   show_stack+0x24/0x30
   dump_stack+0x88/0xb0
   lookup_object+0x84/0xac
   find_and_get_object+0x84/0xe4
   kmemleak_no_scan+0x74/0xf4
   setup_kmem_cache_node+0x2b4/0x35c
   __do_tune_cpucache+0x250/0x2d4
   do_tune_cpucache+0x4c/0xe4
   enable_cpucache+0xc8/0x110
   setup_cpu_cache+0x40/0x1b8
   __kmem_cache_create+0x240/0x358
   create_cache+0xc0/0x198
   kmem_cache_create_usercopy+0x158/0x20c
   kmem_cache_create+0x50/0x64
   fsnotify_init+0x58/0x6c
   do_one_initcall+0x194/0x388
   kernel_init_freeable+0x668/0x688
   kernel_init+0x18/0x124
   ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
  kmemleak: Object 0xffff8007b9aa7e00 (size 256):
  kmemleak:   comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294697137
  kmemleak:   min_count = 1
  kmemleak:   count = 0
  kmemleak:   flags = 0x1
  kmemleak:   checksum = 0
  kmemleak:   backtrace:
       kmemleak_alloc+0x84/0xb8
       kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0x31c/0x3a0
       __kmalloc_node+0x58/0x78
       setup_kmem_cache_node+0x26c/0x35c
       __do_tune_cpucache+0x250/0x2d4
       do_tune_cpucache+0x4c/0xe4
       enable_cpucache+0xc8/0x110
       setup_cpu_cache+0x40/0x1b8
       __kmem_cache_create+0x240/0x358
       create_cache+0xc0/0x198
       kmem_cache_create_usercopy+0x158/0x20c
       kmem_cache_create+0x50/0x64
       fsnotify_init+0x58/0x6c
       do_one_initcall+0x194/0x388
       kernel_init_freeable+0x668/0x688
       kernel_init+0x18/0x124
  kmemleak: Not scanning unknown object at 0xffff8007b9aa7e38
  CPU: 190 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.0.0-rc2+ #2
  Call trace:
   dump_backtrace+0x0/0x168
   show_stack+0x24/0x30
   dump_stack+0x88/0xb0
   kmemleak_no_scan+0x90/0xf4
   setup_kmem_cache_node+0x2b4/0x35c
   __do_tune_cpucache+0x250/0x2d4
   do_tune_cpucache+0x4c/0xe4
   enable_cpucache+0xc8/0x110
   setup_cpu_cache+0x40/0x1b8
   __kmem_cache_create+0x240/0x358
   create_cache+0xc0/0x198
   kmem_cache_create_usercopy+0x158/0x20c
   kmem_cache_create+0x50/0x64
   fsnotify_init+0x58/0x6c
   do_one_initcall+0x194/0x388
   kernel_init_freeable+0x668/0x688
   kernel_init+0x18/0x124
   ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190129184518.39808-1-cai@lca.pw
Fixes: 1fe00d50a9e8 ("slab: factor out initialization of array cache")
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

slab: alien caches must not be initialized if the allocation of the alien cache failed

2019-01-16T21:12:32+00:00

commit 09c2e76ed734a1d36470d257a778aaba28e86531 upstream.

Callers of __alloc_alien() check for NULL.  We must do the same check in
__alloc_alien_cache to avoid NULL pointer dereferences on allocation
failures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/010001680f42f192-82b4e12e-1565-4ee0-ae1f-1e98974906aa-000000@email.amazonses.com
Fixes: 49dfc304ba241 ("slab: use the lock on alien_cache, instead of the lock on array_cache")
Fixes: c8522a3a5832b ("Slab: introduce alloc_alien")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Reported-by: syzbot+d6ed4ec679652b4fd4e4@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: don't warn about large allocations for slab

2018-12-01T08:44:19+00:00

commit 61448479a9f2c954cde0cfe778cb6bec5d0a748d upstream.

Slub does not call kmalloc_slab() for sizes > KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE,
instead it falls back to kmalloc_large().

For slab KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE == KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE and it calls
kmalloc_slab() for all allocations relying on NULL return value for
over-sized allocations.

This inconsistency leads to unwanted warnings from kmalloc_slab() for
over-sized allocations for slab.  Returning NULL for failed allocations is
the expected behavior.

Make slub and slab code consistent by checking size >
KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE in slab before calling kmalloc_slab().

While we are here also fix the check in kmalloc_slab().  We should check
against KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE rather than KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE.  It all kinda
worked because for slab the constants are the same, and slub always checks
the size against KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE before kmalloc_slab().  But if we
get there with size > KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE anyhow bad things will
happen.  For example, in case of a newly introduced bug in slub code.

Also move the check in kmalloc_slab() from function entry to the size >
192 case.  This partially compensates for the additional check in slab
code and makes slub code a bit faster (at least theoretically).

Also drop __GFP_NOWARN in the warning check.  This warning means a bug in
slab code itself, user-passed flags have nothing to do with it.

Nothing of this affects slob.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180927171502.226522-1-dvyukov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov 
Reported-by: syzbot+87829a10073277282ad1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+ef4e8fc3a06e9019bb40@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+6e438f4036df52cbb863@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+8574471d8734457d98aa@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+af1504df0807a083dbd9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, slab: reschedule cache_reap() on the same CPU

2018-04-24T07:34:09+00:00

commit a9f2a846f0503e7d729f552e3ccfe2279010fe94 upstream.

cache_reap() is initially scheduled in start_cpu_timer() via
schedule_delayed_work_on(). But then the next iterations are scheduled
via schedule_delayed_work(), i.e. using WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.

Thus since commit ef557180447f ("workqueue: schedule WORK_CPU_UNBOUND
work on wq_unbound_cpumask CPUs") there is no guarantee the future
iterations will run on the originally intended cpu, although it's still
preferred.  I was able to demonstrate this with
/sys/module/workqueue/parameters/debug_force_rr_cpu.  IIUC, it may also
happen due to migrating timers in nohz context.  As a result, some cpu's
would be calling cache_reap() more frequently and others never.

This patch uses schedule_delayed_work_on() with the current cpu when
scheduling the next iteration.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180411070007.32225-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Fixes: ef557180447f ("workqueue: schedule WORK_CPU_UNBOUND work on wq_unbound_cpumask CPUs")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg 
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Lai Jiangshan 
Cc: John Stultz 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Stephen Boyd 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

slub: move synchronize_sched out of slab_mutex on shrink

2017-03-22T11:43:38+00:00

[ Upstream commit 89e364db71fb5e7fc8d93228152abfa67daf35fa ]

synchronize_sched() is a heavy operation and calling it per each cache
owned by a memory cgroup being destroyed may take quite some time.  What
is worse, it's currently called under the slab_mutex, stalling all works
doing cache creation/destruction.

Actually, there isn't much point in calling synchronize_sched() for each
cache - it's enough to call it just once - after setting cpu_partial for
all caches and before shrinking them.  This way, we can also move it out
of the slab_mutex, which we have to hold for iterating over the slab
cache list.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172991
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0a10d71ecae3db00fb4421bcd3f82bcc911f4be4.1475329751.git.vdavydov.dev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Reported-by: Doug Smythies 
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/slab.c: fix SLAB freelist randomization duplicate entries

2017-01-19T19:17:59+00:00

commit c4e490cf148e85ead0d1b1c2caaba833f1d5b29f upstream.

This patch fixes a bug in the freelist randomization code.  When a high
random number is used, the freelist will contain duplicate entries.  It
will result in different allocations sharing the same chunk.

It will result in odd behaviours and crashes.  It should be uncommon but
it depends on the machines.  We saw it happening more often on some
machines (every few hours of running tests).

Fixes: c7ce4f60ac19 ("mm: SLAB freelist randomization")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170103181908.143178-1-thgarnie@google.com
Signed-off-by: John Sperbeck 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/slab: improve performance of gathering slabinfo stats

2016-10-28T01:43:43+00:00

On large systems, when some slab caches grow to millions of objects (and
many gigabytes), running 'cat /proc/slabinfo' can take up to 1-2
seconds.  During this time, interrupts are disabled while walking the
slab lists (slabs_full, slabs_partial, and slabs_free) for each node,
and this sometimes causes timeouts in other drivers (for instance,
Infiniband).

This patch optimizes 'cat /proc/slabinfo' by maintaining a counter for
total number of allocated slabs per node, per cache.  This counter is
updated when a slab is created or destroyed.  This enables us to skip
traversing the slabs_full list while gathering slabinfo statistics, and
since slabs_full tends to be the biggest list when the cache is large,
it results in a dramatic performance improvement.  Getting slabinfo
statistics now only requires walking the slabs_free and slabs_partial
lists, and those lists are usually much smaller than slabs_full.

We tested this after growing the dentry cache to 70GB, and the
performance improved from 2s to 5ms.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472517876-26814-1-git-send-email-aruna.ramakrishna@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Aruna Ramakrishna 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: Mike Kravetz 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/slab: fix kmemcg cache creation delayed issue

2016-10-28T01:43:42+00:00

There is a bug report that SLAB makes extreme load average due to over
2000 kworker thread.

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172981

This issue is caused by kmemcg feature that try to create new set of
kmem_caches for each memcg.  Recently, kmem_cache creation is slowed by
synchronize_sched() and futher kmem_cache creation is also delayed since
kmem_cache creation is synchronized by a global slab_mutex lock.  So,
the number of kworker that try to create kmem_cache increases quietly.

synchronize_sched() is for lockless access to node's shared array but
it's not needed when a new kmem_cache is created.  So, this patch rules
out that case.

Fixes: 801faf0db894 ("mm/slab: lockless decision to grow cache")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475734855-4837-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Reported-by: Doug Smythies 
Tested-by: Doug Smythies 
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

slab: Convert to hotplug state machine

2016-09-06T16:30:20+00:00

Install the callbacks via the state machine.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160823125319.abeapfjapf2kfezp@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner