Patch "mm/slub.c: trace free objects at KERN_INFO" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mm/slub.c: trace free objects at KERN_INFO

to the 4.9-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:
     mm-slub.c-trace-free-objects-at-kern_info.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From aa2efd5ea4041754da4046c3d2e7edaac9526258 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:18:02 -0800
Subject: mm/slub.c: trace free objects at KERN_INFO

From: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>

commit aa2efd5ea4041754da4046c3d2e7edaac9526258 upstream.

Currently when trace is enabled (e.g.  slub_debug=T,kmalloc-128 ) the
trace messages are mostly output at KERN_INFO.  However the trace code
also calls print_section() to hexdump the head of a free object.  This
is hard coded to use KERN_ERR, meaning the console is deluged with trace
messages even if we've asked for quiet.

Fix this the obvious way but adding a level parameter to
print_section(), allowing calls from the trace code to use the same
trace level as other trace messages.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170113154850.518-1-daniel.thompson@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/slub.c |   23 +++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -496,10 +496,11 @@ static inline int check_valid_pointer(st
 	return 1;
 }
 
-static void print_section(char *text, u8 *addr, unsigned int length)
+static void print_section(char *level, char *text, u8 *addr,
+			  unsigned int length)
 {
 	metadata_access_enable();
-	print_hex_dump(KERN_ERR, text, DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS, 16, 1, addr,
+	print_hex_dump(level, text, DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS, 16, 1, addr,
 			length, 1);
 	metadata_access_disable();
 }
@@ -636,14 +637,15 @@ static void print_trailer(struct kmem_ca
 	       p, p - addr, get_freepointer(s, p));
 
 	if (s->flags & SLAB_RED_ZONE)
-		print_section("Redzone ", p - s->red_left_pad, s->red_left_pad);
+		print_section(KERN_ERR, "Redzone ", p - s->red_left_pad,
+			      s->red_left_pad);
 	else if (p > addr + 16)
-		print_section("Bytes b4 ", p - 16, 16);
+		print_section(KERN_ERR, "Bytes b4 ", p - 16, 16);
 
-	print_section("Object ", p, min_t(unsigned long, s->object_size,
-				PAGE_SIZE));
+	print_section(KERN_ERR, "Object ", p,
+		      min_t(unsigned long, s->object_size, PAGE_SIZE));
 	if (s->flags & SLAB_RED_ZONE)
-		print_section("Redzone ", p + s->object_size,
+		print_section(KERN_ERR, "Redzone ", p + s->object_size,
 			s->inuse - s->object_size);
 
 	if (s->offset)
@@ -658,7 +660,8 @@ static void print_trailer(struct kmem_ca
 
 	if (off != size_from_object(s))
 		/* Beginning of the filler is the free pointer */
-		print_section("Padding ", p + off, size_from_object(s) - off);
+		print_section(KERN_ERR, "Padding ", p + off,
+			      size_from_object(s) - off);
 
 	dump_stack();
 }
@@ -820,7 +823,7 @@ static int slab_pad_check(struct kmem_ca
 		end--;
 
 	slab_err(s, page, "Padding overwritten. 0x%p-0x%p", fault, end - 1);
-	print_section("Padding ", end - remainder, remainder);
+	print_section(KERN_ERR, "Padding ", end - remainder, remainder);
 
 	restore_bytes(s, "slab padding", POISON_INUSE, end - remainder, end);
 	return 0;
@@ -973,7 +976,7 @@ static void trace(struct kmem_cache *s,
 			page->freelist);
 
 		if (!alloc)
-			print_section("Object ", (void *)object,
+			print_section(KERN_INFO, "Object ", (void *)object,
 					s->object_size);
 
 		dump_stack();


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from daniel.thompson@linaro.org are

queue-4.9/mm-slub.c-trace-free-objects-at-kern_info.patch