Re: Kernel WARNING splat in 3.14-rc1

From: David Rientjes
Date: Mon Feb 03 2014 - 15:39:50 EST


Commit c65c1877bd68 ("slub: use lockdep_assert_held") incorrectly required
that add_full() and remove_full() hold n->list_lock. The lock is only
taken when kmem_cache_debug(s), since that's the only time it actually
does anything.

Require that the lock only be taken under such a condition.

Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slub.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1004,21 +1004,19 @@ static inline void slab_free_hook(struct kmem_cache *s, void *x)
static void add_full(struct kmem_cache *s,
struct kmem_cache_node *n, struct page *page)
{
- lockdep_assert_held(&n->list_lock);
-
if (!(s->flags & SLAB_STORE_USER))
return;

+ lockdep_assert_held(&n->list_lock);
list_add(&page->lru, &n->full);
}

static void remove_full(struct kmem_cache *s, struct kmem_cache_node *n, struct page *page)
{
- lockdep_assert_held(&n->list_lock);
-
if (!(s->flags & SLAB_STORE_USER))
return;

+ lockdep_assert_held(&n->list_lock);
list_del(&page->lru);
}

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