[ 36/82] slub: fix a memory leak in get_partial_node()

Ben Hutchings
2012-06-08T05:16:48Z

From: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>

commit 02d7633fa567be7bf55a993b79d2a31b95ce2227 upstream.

In the case which is below,

1. acquire slab for cpu partial list
2. free object to it by remote cpu
3. page->freelist = t

then memory leak is occurred.

Change acquire_slab() not to zap freelist when it works for cpu partial list.
I think it is a sufficient solution for fixing a memory leak.

Below is output of 'slabinfo -r kmalloc-256'
when './perf stat -r 30 hackbench 50 process 4000 > /dev/null' is done.

***Vanilla***
Sizes (bytes) Slabs Debug Memory
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Object : 256 Total : 468 Sanity Checks : Off Total: 3833856
SlabObj: 256 Full : 111 Redzoning : Off Used : 2004992
SlabSiz: 8192 Partial: 302 Poisoning : Off Loss : 1828864
Loss : 0 CpuSlab: 55 Tracking : Off Lalig: 0
Align : 8 Objects: 32 Tracing : Off Lpadd: 0

***Patched***
Sizes (bytes) Slabs Debug Memory
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Object : 256 Total : 300 Sanity Checks : Off Total: 2457600
SlabObj: 256 Full : 204 Redzoning : Off Used : 2348800
SlabSiz: 8192 Partial: 33 Poisoning : Off Loss : 108800
Loss : 0 CpuSlab: 63 Tracking : Off Lalig: 0
Align : 8 Objects: 32 Tracing : Off Lpadd: 0

Total and loss number is the impact of this patch.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
mm/slub.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1506,15 +1506,19 @@
freelist = page->freelist;
counters = page->counters;
new.counters = counters;
- if (mode)
+ if (mode) {
new.inuse = page->objects;
+ new.freelist = NULL;
+ } else {
+ new.freelist = freelist;
+ }

VM_BUG_ON(new.frozen);
new.frozen = 1;

} while (!__cmpxchg_double_slab(s, page,
freelist, counters,
- NULL, new.counters,
+ new.freelist, new.counters,
"lock and freeze"));

remove_partial(n, page);
@@ -1556,7 +1560,6 @@
object = t;
available = page->objects - page->inuse;
} else {
- page->freelist = t;
available = put_cpu_partial(s, page, 0);
}
if (kmem_cache_debug(s) || available > s->cpu_partial / 2)