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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] slab, kmemleak, bugfix, pass the correct pointer to kmemleak_erase()
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:33:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B1B6C45.1040809@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tnxmy214s5k.fsf@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>

Catalin Marinas wrote:
> "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
>> In ____cache_alloc(), the variable 'ac' may be changed after
>> cache_alloc_refill() and the following kmemleak_erase() may get an
>> incorrect pointer.
>> Update 'ac' after cache_alloc_refill() unconditionally.
>> cf. http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125873373124187&w=2
>>     and its thread.
>>
>> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
>> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
>> ---
>>  mm/slab.c |    5 +++++
>>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
>> index 4e61449..66e9047 100644
>> --- a/mm/slab.c
>> +++ b/mm/slab.c
>> @@ -3103,6 +3103,11 @@ static inline void *____cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags)
>>  	} else {
>>  		STATS_INC_ALLOCMISS(cachep);
>>  		objp = cache_alloc_refill(cachep, flags);
>> +		/*
>> +		 * the 'ac' may be updated by cache_alloc_refill(),
>> +		 * and kmemleak_erase() requires its correct value.
>> +		 */
>> +		ac = cpu_cache_get(cachep);
>>  	}
>>  	/*
>>  	 * To avoid a false negative, if an object that is in one of the
> 
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> 
> Thanks.

Applied, thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-06  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-02  7:55 [PATCH 0/2] fix for kmemleak_erase() (Re: Q, slab, kmemleak_erase() and redzone?) J. R. Okajima
2009-12-02  7:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] slab, kmemleak, minor, stop calling kmemleak_erase() unconditionally J. R. Okajima
2009-12-02  9:54   ` Catalin Marinas
2009-12-06  8:33     ` Pekka Enberg
2009-12-02  7:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] slab, kmemleak, bugfix, pass the correct pointer to kmemleak_erase() J. R. Okajima
2009-12-02  9:55   ` Catalin Marinas
2009-12-06  8:33     ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2009-12-02  8:07 ` [PATCH 0/2] fix for kmemleak_erase() (Re: Q, slab, kmemleak_erase() and redzone?) Pekka Enberg

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