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On systems with a KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE of 128 (arm64, some mips and powerpc
configurations defining ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to 128), the first
kmalloc_caches[] entry to be initialised after slab_early_init = 0 is
"kmalloc-128" with index 7.  Depending on the debug kernel configuration,
sizeof(struct kmem_cache) can be larger than 128 resulting in an
INDEX_NODE of 8.

Commit 8fc9cf4 ("slab: make more slab management structure off the
slab") enables off-slab management objects for sizes starting with
PAGE_SIZE >> 5 (128 bytes for a 4KB page configuration) and the creation
of the "kmalloc-128" cache would try to place the management objects
off-slab.  However, since KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE is already 128 and
freelist_size == 32 in __kmem_cache_create(), kmalloc_slab(freelist_size)
returns NULL (kmalloc_caches[7] not populated yet).  This triggers the
following bug on arm64:

  kernel BUG at /work/Linux/linux-2.6-aarch64/mm/slab.c:2283!
  Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.3.0-rc4+ torvalds#540
  Hardware name: Juno (DT)
  PC is at __kmem_cache_create+0x21c/0x280
  LR is at __kmem_cache_create+0x210/0x280
  [...]
  Call trace:
    __kmem_cache_create+0x21c/0x280
    create_boot_cache+0x48/0x80
    create_kmalloc_cache+0x50/0x88
    create_kmalloc_caches+0x4c/0xf4
    kmem_cache_init+0x100/0x118
    start_kernel+0x214/0x33c

This patch introduces an OFF_SLAB_MIN_SIZE definition to avoid off-slab
management objects for sizes equal to or smaller than KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE.

Fixes: 8fc9cf4 ("slab: make more slab management structure off the slab")
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>	[3.15+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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ctmarinas authored and torvalds committed Nov 6, 2015
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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions mm/slab.c
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Expand Up @@ -282,6 +282,7 @@ static void kmem_cache_node_init(struct kmem_cache_node *parent)

#define CFLGS_OFF_SLAB (0x80000000UL)
#define OFF_SLAB(x) ((x)->flags & CFLGS_OFF_SLAB)
#define OFF_SLAB_MIN_SIZE (max_t(size_t, PAGE_SIZE >> 5, KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE + 1))

#define BATCHREFILL_LIMIT 16
/*
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2212,7 +2213,7 @@ __kmem_cache_create (struct kmem_cache *cachep, unsigned long flags)
* it too early on. Always use on-slab management when
* SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE to avoid recursive calls into kmemleak)
*/
if ((size >= (PAGE_SIZE >> 5)) && !slab_early_init &&
if (size >= OFF_SLAB_MIN_SIZE && !slab_early_init &&
!(flags & SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE))
/*
* Size is large, assume best to place the slab management obj
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2276,7 +2277,7 @@ __kmem_cache_create (struct kmem_cache *cachep, unsigned long flags)
/*
* This is a possibility for one of the kmalloc_{dma,}_caches.
* But since we go off slab only for object size greater than
* PAGE_SIZE/8, and kmalloc_{dma,}_caches get created
* OFF_SLAB_MIN_SIZE, and kmalloc_{dma,}_caches get created
* in ascending order,this should not happen at all.
* But leave a BUG_ON for some lucky dude.
*/
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