Re: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 495 at mm/slab_common.c:69 kmem_cache_create+0x1a9/0x330()

[poma <pomidorabelisima@gmail.com>]

On 18.07.2014 16:17, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 05:21:04PM +0400, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
>> Slab warns, because the name of the cache being created contains spaces.
>> The "bad" cache is created by scsi_get_host_cmd_pool. Its name
>> (pool->cmd_name) is initialized by scsi_alloc_host_cmd_pool as follows:
>>
>> 	pool->cmd_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s_cmd", hostt->name);
>>
>> So, if hostt->name contains spaces, the cache name will also contain
>> spaces and we'll get the warning. And hostt->name can contain spaces,
>> e.g. virtscsi_host_template_single.name="Virtio SCSI HBA".
>
> Or might not even be present.  I'll send a patch to replace it with
> ->proc_name, which must not contain spaces and is generally shorter
> as well.
>

Is this what you thought?
@@ -148,20 +148,20 @@
  	struct kmem_cache	*cmd_slab;
  	struct kmem_cache	*sense_slab;
  	unsigned int		users;
-	char			*cmd_name;
+	char			*proc_name;
  	char			*sense_name;
  	unsigned int		slab_flags;
  	gfp_t			gfp_mask;
  };
  
  static struct scsi_host_cmd_pool scsi_cmd_pool = {
-	.cmd_name	= "scsi_cmd_cache",
+	.proc_name	= "scsi_cmd_cache",
  	.sense_name	= "scsi_sense_cache",
  	.slab_flags	= SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN,
  };
  
  static struct scsi_host_cmd_pool scsi_cmd_dma_pool = {
-	.cmd_name	= "scsi_cmd_cache(DMA)",
+	.proc_name	= "scsi_cmd_cache(DMA)",
  	.sense_name	= "scsi_sense_cache(DMA)",
  	.slab_flags	= SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_CACHE_DMA,
  	.gfp_mask	= __GFP_DMA,
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@
  scsi_free_host_cmd_pool(struct scsi_host_cmd_pool *pool)
  {
  	kfree(pool->sense_name);
-	kfree(pool->cmd_name);
+	kfree(pool->proc_name);
  	kfree(pool);
  }
  
@@ -368,9 +368,9 @@
  	if (!pool)
  		return NULL;
  
-	pool->cmd_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s_cmd", hostt->name);
+	pool->proc_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s_cmd", hostt->name);
  	pool->sense_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s_sense", hostt->name);
-	if (!pool->cmd_name || !pool->sense_name) {
+	if (!pool->proc_name || !pool->sense_name) {
  		scsi_free_host_cmd_pool(pool);
  		return NULL;
  	}
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@
  	}
  
  	if (!pool->users) {
-		pool->cmd_slab = kmem_cache_create(pool->cmd_name, cmd_size, 0,
+		pool->cmd_slab = kmem_cache_create(pool->proc_name, cmd_size, 0,
  						   pool->slab_flags, NULL);
  		if (!pool->cmd_slab)
  			goto out_free_pool;


however ain't workin.


poma