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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:39:54 -0400
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: oops in slab/leaks_show
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To: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 09:35:00AM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
 > On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 11:18:30AM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
 > > Joonsoo recently changed the handling of the freelist in SLAB. CCing him.
 > > 
 > > On Thu, 6 Mar 2014, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > 
 > > > I pretty much always use SLUB for my fuzzing boxes, but thought I'd give SLAB a try
 > > > for a change.. It blew up when something tried to read /proc/slab_allocators
 > > > (Just cat it, and you should see the oops below)
 > 
 > Hello, Dave.
 > 
 > Today, I did a test on v3.13 which contains all my changes on the handling of
 > the freelist in SLAB and couldn't trigger oops by just 'cat /proc/slab_allocators'.
 > 
 > So I look at the code and find that there is race window if there is multiple users
 > doing 'cat /proc/slab_allocators'. Did your test do that?

I could reproduce it with a single cat.

	Dave

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