Commit 714b8171 authored by Pekka Enberg's avatar Pekka Enberg Committed by Linus Torvalds

slab: ensure cache_alloc_refill terminates

If slab->inuse is corrupted, cache_alloc_refill can enter an infinite
loop as detailed by Michael Richardson in the following post:
<http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/16/292>. This adds a BUG_ON to catch
those cases.

Cc: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>
Acked-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 5f22df00
......@@ -2990,6 +2990,14 @@ static void *cache_alloc_refill(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags)
slabp = list_entry(entry, struct slab, list);
check_slabp(cachep, slabp);
check_spinlock_acquired(cachep);
/*
* The slab was either on partial or free list so
* there must be at least one object available for
* allocation.
*/
BUG_ON(slabp->inuse < 0 || slabp->inuse >= cachep->num);
while (slabp->inuse < cachep->num && batchcount--) {
STATS_INC_ALLOCED(cachep);
STATS_INC_ACTIVE(cachep);
......
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