Re: [PATCH 3/3] slub: Actually use 'message' in restore_bytes()

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Thu May 20 2021 - 06:08:55 EST


On 5/20/21 3:35 AM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> The message argument isn't used here. Let's pass the string to the
> printk message so that the developer can figure out what's happening,
> instead of guessing that a redzone is being restored, etc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

> ---
> mm/slub.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 87eeeed1f369..16e8e8f8dc0c 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ static void init_object(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object, u8 val)
> static void restore_bytes(struct kmem_cache *s, char *message, u8 data,
> void *from, void *to)
> {
> - slab_fix(s, "Restoring 0x%px-0x%px=0x%x\n", from, to - 1, data);
> + slab_fix(s, "Restoring %s 0x%px-0x%px=0x%x\n", message, from, to - 1, data);
> memset(from, data, to - from);
> }
>
>