Re: [GIT BISECT] BUG kmalloc-8192: Object already free from kmem_cache_destroy

[Danny Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>]

On 09/14/2009 11:25 AM, Eric Paris wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 11:18 +0800, Danny Feng wrote:
>> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
>> index b627675..40e12d5 100644
>> --- a/mm/slub.c
>> +++ b/mm/slub.c
>> @@ -3337,8 +3337,8 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char
>> *name, size_t size,
>>                                  goto err;
>>                          }
>>                          return s;
>> -               }
>> -               kfree(s);
>> +               } else
>> +                       kfree(s);
>>          }
>>          up_write(&slub_lock);
>>
>
> Doesn't the return inside the conditional take care of this?  I'll give
> it a try in the morning, but I don't see how this can solve the
> problem....
>
> -Eric
>
>
err, you're right... let me try to find why. It's strange, if SLUB_DEBUG 
is not set, sysfs_slab_remove is just to free kmem_cache s. So I think 
if SLUB_DEBUG is not set, we also have the same issue....