Re: + mm-shmem-use-kmem_cache_zalloc-in-shmem_alloc_inode.patch added to -mm tree

[Hui Su <sh_def@163.com>]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 10:17:20PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Nov 2020, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> > 
> > The patch titled
> >      Subject: mm/shmem: use kmem_cache_zalloc in shmem_alloc_inode()
> > has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
> >      mm-shmem-use-kmem_cache_zalloc-in-shmem_alloc_inode.patch
> > 
> > This patch should soon appear at
> >     https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-shmem-use-kmem_cache_zalloc-in-shmem_alloc_inode.patch
> > and later at
> >     https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-shmem-use-kmem_cache_zalloc-in-shmem_alloc_inode.patch
> > 
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> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > From: Hui Su <sh_def@163.com>
> > Subject: mm/shmem: use kmem_cache_zalloc in shmem_alloc_inode()
> 
> Andrew, Stephen, please revert this untested "cleanup" from your
> trees a.s.a.p: it's a disaster for anyone using shmem/tmpfs.
> 
> > 
> > in shmem_get_inode():
> > new_inode();
> >   new_inode_pseudo();
> >     alloc_inode();
> >       ops->alloc_inode(); -> shmem_alloc_inode()
> >         kmem_cache_alloc();
> > 
> > memset(info, 0, (char *)inode - (char *)info);
> > 
> > So use kmem_cache_zalloc() in shmem_alloc_inode(),
> > and remove the memset in shmem_get_inode().
> 
> I could not follow that argument at all.  The shmem_inode_cachep
> uses a constructor, and the memset shown is of only a portion of
> the whole inode.  zeroing the entire inode quickly crashes the
> kernel, after showing errors.
> 
> (If you're lucky enough to have a readable display at that point:
> I did not, but got on better with framebuffer than drm/i915; and
> I wonder if there's a separate bug in that area too, because fixing
> this shmem issue is not enough to get my drm/i915 rc4-mm1 booting.)
> 

Sorry, I thought it was a small change before, so I forgot to test it.
It's SO STUPID. I'm really sorry.

> > 
> > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201115174026.GA365412@rlk
> > Signed-off-by: Hui Su <sh_def@163.com>
> 
> NAK.  Hui Su, please test your "cleanups" before sending them.
> 

I will remember it, thanks.

I have spent two evenings building a patch automated test platform
using qemu and jenkins.

> I'm sorry for being slow to respond, but the priority appeared
> to be to get Matthew Wilcox's series running reliably, so I had not
> got around to checking the less urgent shmem patches before they
> slipped into mmotm - there may well be more that I want to NAK,
> but this is the dangerous one.
> 
> Thanks,
> Hugh
>