From: Christoph Lameter Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:31:38 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] slab: do not panic when alloc_kmemlist fails and slab is up X-Git-Tag: v2.6.19-rc1~1177 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2ed3a4ef95ef1a13a424378c34ebd9b7e593f212;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] slab: do not panic when alloc_kmemlist fails and slab is up It is fairly easy to get a system to oops by simply sizing a cache via /proc in such a way that one of the chaches (shared is easiest) becomes bigger than the maximum allowed slab allocation size. This occurs because enable_cpucache() fails if it cannot reallocate some caches. However, enable_cpucache() is used for multiple purposes: resizing caches, cache creation and bootstrap. If the slab is already up then we already have working caches. The resize can fail without a problem. We just need to return the proper error code. F.e. after this patch: # echo "size-64 10000 50 1000" >/proc/slabinfo -bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory notice no OOPS. If we are doing a kmem_cache_create() then we also should not panic but return -ENOMEM. If on the other hand we do not have a fully bootstrapped slab allocator yet then we should indeed panic since we are unable to bring up the slab to its full functionality. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index c714741b25..3233c4c7cb 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ static int drain_freelist(struct kmem_cache *cache, struct kmem_list3 *l3, int tofree); static void free_block(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void **objpp, int len, int node); -static void enable_cpucache(struct kmem_cache *cachep); +static int enable_cpucache(struct kmem_cache *cachep); static void cache_reap(void *unused); /* @@ -1490,7 +1490,8 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void) struct kmem_cache *cachep; mutex_lock(&cache_chain_mutex); list_for_each_entry(cachep, &cache_chain, next) - enable_cpucache(cachep); + if (enable_cpucache(cachep)) + BUG(); mutex_unlock(&cache_chain_mutex); } @@ -1924,12 +1925,11 @@ static size_t calculate_slab_order(struct kmem_cache *cachep, return left_over; } -static void setup_cpu_cache(struct kmem_cache *cachep) +static int setup_cpu_cache(struct kmem_cache *cachep) { - if (g_cpucache_up == FULL) { - enable_cpucache(cachep); - return; - } + if (g_cpucache_up == FULL) + return enable_cpucache(cachep); + if (g_cpucache_up == NONE) { /* * Note: the first kmem_cache_create must create the cache @@ -1976,6 +1976,7 @@ static void setup_cpu_cache(struct kmem_cache *cachep) cpu_cache_get(cachep)->touched = 0; cachep->batchcount = 1; cachep->limit = BOOT_CPUCACHE_ENTRIES; + return 0; } /** @@ -2242,8 +2243,11 @@ kmem_cache_create (const char *name, size_t size, size_t align, cachep->dtor = dtor; cachep->name = name; - - setup_cpu_cache(cachep); + if (setup_cpu_cache(cachep)) { + __kmem_cache_destroy(cachep); + cachep = NULL; + goto oops; + } /* cache setup completed, link it into the list */ list_add(&cachep->next, &cache_chain); @@ -3693,7 +3697,7 @@ static int do_tune_cpucache(struct kmem_cache *cachep, int limit, int batchcount, int shared) { struct ccupdate_struct new; - int i, err; + int i; memset(&new.new, 0, sizeof(new.new)); for_each_online_cpu(i) { @@ -3724,17 +3728,11 @@ static int do_tune_cpucache(struct kmem_cache *cachep, int limit, kfree(ccold); } - err = alloc_kmemlist(cachep); - if (err) { - printk(KERN_ERR "alloc_kmemlist failed for %s, error %d.\n", - cachep->name, -err); - BUG(); - } - return 0; + return alloc_kmemlist(cachep); } /* Called with cache_chain_mutex held always */ -static void enable_cpucache(struct kmem_cache *cachep) +static int enable_cpucache(struct kmem_cache *cachep) { int err; int limit, shared; @@ -3786,6 +3784,7 @@ static void enable_cpucache(struct kmem_cache *cachep) if (err) printk(KERN_ERR "enable_cpucache failed for %s, error %d.\n", cachep->name, -err); + return err; } /*