Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm, slub: fix mismatch between reconstructed freelist depth and cnt

[Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>]

On 9/16/21 14:39, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> If object's reuse is delayed, it will be excluded from the reconstructed
> freelist. But we forgot to adjust the cnt accordingly. So there will be
> a mismatch between reconstructed freelist depth and cnt. This will lead
> to free_debug_processing() complain about freelist count or a incorrect
> slub inuse count.
> 
> Fixes: c3895391df38 ("kasan, slub: fix handling of kasan_slab_free hook")
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>

Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

I was worried about taking pointer of the cnt parameter when it's hardcoded
1, whether it would destroy inlining. Looks like not, luckily, the function
is just renamed:

> ./scripts/bloat-o-meter mm/slub.o slub.o.after
add/remove: 1/1 grow/shrink: 0/0 up/down: 292/-292 (0)
Function                                     old     new   delta
slab_free_freelist_hook.constprop              -     292    +292
slab_free_freelist_hook                      292       -    -292

> ---
>  mm/slub.c | 11 +++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index ed160b6c54f8..a56a6423d4e8 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -1701,7 +1701,8 @@ static __always_inline bool slab_free_hook(struct kmem_cache *s,
>  }
>  
>  static inline bool slab_free_freelist_hook(struct kmem_cache *s,
> -					   void **head, void **tail)
> +					   void **head, void **tail,
> +					   int *cnt)
>  {
>  
>  	void *object;
> @@ -1728,6 +1729,12 @@ static inline bool slab_free_freelist_hook(struct kmem_cache *s,
>  			*head = object;
>  			if (!*tail)
>  				*tail = object;
> +		} else {
> +			/*
> +			 * Adjust the reconstructed freelist depth
> +			 * accordingly if object's reuse is delayed.
> +			 */
> +			--(*cnt);
>  		}
>  	} while (object != old_tail);
>  
> @@ -3480,7 +3487,7 @@ static __always_inline void slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page,
>  	 * With KASAN enabled slab_free_freelist_hook modifies the freelist
>  	 * to remove objects, whose reuse must be delayed.
>  	 */
> -	if (slab_free_freelist_hook(s, &head, &tail))
> +	if (slab_free_freelist_hook(s, &head, &tail, &cnt))
>  		do_slab_free(s, page, head, tail, cnt, addr);
>  }
>  
>