Re: oops in slab/leaks_show

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Fri Apr 11 2014 - 03:36:41 EST


On 03/11/2014 10:30 AM, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
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From ff6fe77fb764ca5bf8705bf53d07d38e4111e84c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:14:25 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] slab: remove kernel_map_pages() optimization in slab
poisoning

If CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC enables, slab poisoning functionality uses
kernel_map_pages(), instead of real poisoning, to detect memory corruption
with low overhead. But, in that case, slab leak detector trigger oops.
Reason is that slab leak detector accesses all active objects, especially
including objects in cpu slab caches to get the caller information.
These objects are already unmapped via kernel_map_pages() to detect memory
corruption, so oops could be triggered.

Following is oops message reported from Dave.

It blew up when something tried to read /proc/slab_allocators
(Just cat it, and you should see the oops below)

Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Modules linked in: fuse hidp snd_seq_dummy tun rfcomm bnep llc2 af_key can_raw ipt_ULOG can_bcm nfnetlink scsi_transport_iscsi nfc caif_socket caif af_802154 phonet af_rxrpc can pppoe pppox ppp_generic
+slhc irda crc_ccitt rds rose x25 atm netrom appletalk ipx p8023 psnap p8022 llc ax25 cfg80211 xfs coretemp hwmon x86_pkg_temp_thermal kvm_intel kvm crct10dif_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel
+libcrc32c usb_debug microcode snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic pcspkr btusb bluetooth 6lowpan_iphc rfkill snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm
+snd_timer e1000e snd ptp shpchp soundcore pps_core serio_raw
CPU: 1 PID: 9386 Comm: trinity-c33 Not tainted 3.14.0-rc5+ #131
task: ffff8801aa46e890 ti: ffff880076924000 task.ti: ffff880076924000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffaa1a8f4a>] [<ffffffffaa1a8f4a>] handle_slab+0x8a/0x180
RSP: 0018:ffff880076925de0 EFLAGS: 00010002
RAX: 0000000000001000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000005ce85ce7
RDX: ffffea00079be100 RSI: 0000000000001000 RDI: ffff880107458000
RBP: ffff880076925e18 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000000f R12: ffff8801e6f84000
R13: ffffea00079be100 R14: ffff880107458000 R15: ffff88022bb8d2c0
FS: 00007fb769e45740(0000) GS:ffff88024d040000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffff8801e6f84ff8 CR3: 00000000a22db000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
DR0: 0000000002695000 DR1: 0000000002695000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000070602
Stack:
ffff8802339dcfc0 ffff88022bb8d2c0 ffff880107458000 ffff88022bb8d2c0
ffff8802339dd008 ffff8802339dcfc0 ffffea00079be100 ffff880076925e68
ffffffffaa1ad9be ffff880203fe4f00 ffff88022bb8d318 0000000076925e98
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffaa1ad9be>] leaks_show+0xce/0x240
[<ffffffffaa1e6c0e>] seq_read+0x28e/0x490
[<ffffffffaa23008d>] proc_reg_read+0x3d/0x80
[<ffffffffaa1c026b>] vfs_read+0x9b/0x160
[<ffffffffaa1c0d88>] SyS_read+0x58/0xb0
[<ffffffffaa7420aa>] tracesys+0xd4/0xd9
Code: f5 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 63 c8 44 3b 0c 8a 0f 84 e3 00 00 00 83 c0 01 44 39 c0 72 eb 41 f6 47 1a 01 0f 84 e9 00 00 00 89 f0 <4d> 8b 4c 04 f8 4d 85 c9 0f 84 88 00 00 00 49 8b 7e 08 4d 8d 46
RIP [<ffffffffaa1a8f4a>] handle_slab+0x8a/0x180
RSP <ffff880076925de0>
CR2: ffff8801e6f84ff8

There are two solutions to fix the problem. One is to disable
CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK if CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y. The other is to remove
kernel_map_pages() optimization in slab poisoning. I think that
second one is better, since we can use all functionality with some more
overhead. slab poisoning is already heavy operation, so adding more
overhead doesn't weaken their value.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>

Joonsoo, can you please resend against slab/next? I'm seeing some rejects here.

- Pekka
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