slub: fix a possible memleak in __slab_alloc()
Zhihua Che reported a possible memleak in slub allocator on
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y builds.
It is possible current thread migrates right before disabling irqs in
__slab_alloc(). We must check again c->freelist, and perform a normal
allocation instead of scratching c->freelist.
Many thanks to Zhihua Che for spotting this bug, introduced in 2.6.39
V2: Its also possible an IRQ freed one (or several) object(s) and
populated c->freelist, so its not a CONFIG_PREEMPT only problem.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [2.6.39+]
Reported-by: Zhihua Che <zhihua.che@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 108ed03..5e410a9 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2169,6 +2169,11 @@
goto new_slab;
}
+ /* must check again c->freelist in case of cpu migration or IRQ */
+ object = c->freelist;
+ if (object)
+ goto load_freelist;
+
stat(s, ALLOC_SLOWPATH);
do {