kernel/linux.git/mm/slab_common.c, branch linux-4.4.y

mm/slab: use memzero_explicit() in kzfree()

2020-06-30T00:08:03+00:00

commit 8982ae527fbef170ef298650c15d55a9ccd33973 upstream. The kzfree() function is normally used to clear some sensitive information, like encryption keys, in the buffer before freeing it back to the pool. Memset() is currently used for buffer clearing. However unlikely, there is still a non-zero probability that the compiler may choose to optimize away the memory clearing especially if LTO is being used in the future. To make sure that this optimization will never happen, memzero_explicit(), which is introduced in v3.18, is now used in kzfree() to future-proof it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616154311.12314-2-longman@redhat.com Fixes: 3ef0e5ba4673 ("slab: introduce kzfree()") Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: David Howells Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen Cc: James Morris Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: "Jason A . Donenfeld" Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

slub: do not merge cache if slub_debug contains a never-merge flag

2017-10-21T15:09:05+00:00

[ Upstream commit c6e28895a4372992961888ffaadc9efc643b5bfe ] In case CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON=n, find_mergeable() gets debug features from commandline but never checks if there are features from the SLAB_NEVER_MERGE set. As a result selected by slub_debug caches are always mergeable if they have been created without a custom constructor set or without one of the SLAB_* debug features on. This moves the SLAB_NEVER_MERGE check below the flags update from commandline to make sure it won't merge the slab cache if one of the debug features is on. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170101124451.GA4740@lp-laptop-d Signed-off-by: Grygorii Maistrenko Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: memcontrol: fix cgroup creation failure after many small jobs

2016-08-16T07:30:51+00:00

commit 73f576c04b9410ed19660f74f97521bee6e1c546 upstream. The memory controller has quite a bit of state that usually outlives the cgroup and pins its CSS until said state disappears. At the same time it imposes a 16-bit limit on the CSS ID space to economically store IDs in the wild. Consequently, when we use cgroups to contain frequent but small and short-lived jobs that leave behind some page cache, we quickly run into the 64k limitations of outstanding CSSs. Creating a new cgroup fails with -ENOSPC while there are only a few, or even no user-visible cgroups in existence. Although pinning CSSs past cgroup removal is common, there are only two instances that actually need an ID after a cgroup is deleted: cache shadow entries and swapout records. Cache shadow entries reference the ID weakly and can deal with the CSS having disappeared when it's looked up later. They pose no hurdle. Swap-out records do need to pin the css to hierarchically attribute swapins after the cgroup has been deleted; though the only pages that remain swapped out after offlining are tmpfs/shmem pages. And those references are under the user's control, so they are manageable. This patch introduces a private 16-bit memcg ID and switches swap and cache shadow entries over to using that. This ID can then be recycled after offlining when the CSS remains pinned only by objects that don't specifically need it. This script demonstrates the problem by faulting one cache page in a new cgroup and deleting it again: set -e mkdir -p pages for x in `seq 128000`; do [ $((x % 1000)) -eq 0 ] && echo $x mkdir /cgroup/foo echo $$ >/cgroup/foo/cgroup.procs echo trex >pages/$x echo $$ >/cgroup/cgroup.procs rmdir /cgroup/foo done When run on an unpatched kernel, we eventually run out of possible IDs even though there are no visible cgroups: [root@ham ~]# ./cssidstress.sh [...] 65000 mkdir: cannot create directory '/cgroup/foo': No space left on device After this patch, the IDs get released upon cgroup destruction and the cache and css objects get released once memory reclaim kicks in. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: init the IDR] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160621154601.GA22431@cmpxchg.org Fixes: b2052564e66d ("mm: memcontrol: continue cache reclaim from offlined groups") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160617162516.GD19084@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Reported-by: John Garcia Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Nikolay Borisov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

slab/slub: adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API

2015-11-22T19:58:44+00:00

Adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API before we have any real users. Adjust API to return type 'int' instead of previously type 'bool'. This is done to allow future extension of the bulk alloc API. A future extension could be to allow SLUB to stop at a page boundary, when specified by a flag, and then return the number of objects. The advantage of this approach, would make it easier to make bulk alloc run without local IRQs disabled. With an approach of cmpxchg "stealing" the entire c->freelist or page->freelist. To avoid overshooting we would stop processing at a slab-page boundary. Else we always end up returning some objects at the cost of another cmpxchg. To keep compatible with future users of this API linking against an older kernel when using the new flag, we need to return the number of allocated objects with this API change. Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Cc: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/slab_common.c: initialize kmem_cache pointer to NULL

2015-11-06T03:34:48+00:00

The assignment to NULL within the error condition was written in a 2014 patch to suppress a compiler warning. However it would be cleaner to just initialize the kmem_cache to NULL and just return it in case of an error condition. Signed-off-by: Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/slab_common.c: do not warn that cache is busy on destroy more than once

2015-11-06T03:34:48+00:00

Currently, when kmem_cache_destroy() is called for a global cache, we print a warning for each per memcg cache attached to it that has active objects (see shutdown_cache). This is redundant, because it gives no new information and only clutters the log. If a cache being destroyed has active objects, there must be a memory leak in the module that created the cache, and it does not matter if the cache was used by users in memory cgroups or not. This patch moves the warning from shutdown_cache(), which is called for shutting down both global and per memcg caches, to kmem_cache_destroy(), so that the warning is only printed once if there are objects left in the cache being destroyed. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/slab_common.c: clear pointers to per memcg caches on destroy

2015-11-06T03:34:48+00:00

Currently, we do not clear pointers to per memcg caches in the memcg_params.memcg_caches array when a global cache is destroyed with kmem_cache_destroy. This is fine if the global cache does get destroyed. However, a cache can be left on the list if it still has active objects when kmem_cache_destroy is called (due to a memory leak). If this happens, the entries in the array will point to already freed areas, which is likely to result in data corruption when the cache is reused (via slab merging). Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/slab_common.c: rename cache create/destroy helpers

2015-11-06T03:34:48+00:00

do_kmem_cache_create(), do_kmem_cache_shutdown(), and do_kmem_cache_release() sound awkward for static helper functions that are not supposed to be used outside slab_common.c. Rename them to create_cache(), shutdown_cache(), and release_caches(), respectively. This patch is a pure cleanup and does not introduce any functional changes. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

slab: convert slab_is_available() to boolean

2015-11-06T03:34:48+00:00

A good candidate to return a boolean result. Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov Cc: Christoph Lameter Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memcg: export struct mem_cgroup

2015-09-08T22:35:28+00:00

mem_cgroup structure is defined in mm/memcontrol.c currently which means that the code outside of this file has to use external API even for trivial access stuff. This patch exports mm_struct with its dependencies and makes some of the exported functions inlines. This even helps to reduce the code size a bit (make defconfig + CONFIG_MEMCG=y) text data bss dec hex filename 12355346 1823792 1089536 15268674 e8fb42 vmlinux.before 12354970 1823792 1089536 15268298 e8f9ca vmlinux.after This is not much (370B) but better than nothing. We also save a function call in some hot paths like callers of mem_cgroup_count_vm_event which is used for accounting. The patch doesn't introduce any functional changes. [vdavykov@parallels.com: inline memcg_kmem_is_active] [vdavykov@parallels.com: do not expose type outside of CONFIG_MEMCG] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: memcontrol.h needs eventfd.h for eventfd_ctx] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export mem_cgroup_from_task() to modules] Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds