Re: 2.6.16rc1-git4 slab corruption.

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Wed Feb 01 2006 - 11:25:49 EST


On 2/1/06, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Manfred had a nice 'check all slabs before they're freed' patch, which might
> > > be worth resurrecting for some tests. It may be that we're corrupting rarely
> > > free'd slabs, making them hard to hit.

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:27:02AM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > Do you know where I can find that patch? I would like to try to sneak
> > that past Andrew. It seems silly not to have these useful slab
> > debugging patches within mainline.

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 11:09 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> Here's the last version that I had that was rediffed against
> 2.6.13 or .14 (I forget which, it's been a while since I used it).

Thanks Dave. Manfred, is there are reason this wasn't merged with
mainline? Needs bit of cleanup but seems useful for detecting slab
corruption early.

Pekka

>
> diff -urNp --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude linux-1000/mm/slab.c linux-1010/mm/slab.c
> --- linux-1000/mm/slab.c
> +++ linux-1010/mm/slab.c
> @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@
> */
>
> #define BUFCTL_END (((kmem_bufctl_t)(~0U))-0)
> -#define BUFCTL_FREE (((kmem_bufctl_t)(~0U))-1)
> +#define BUFCTL_ALLOC (((kmem_bufctl_t)(~0U))-1)
> #define SLAB_LIMIT (((kmem_bufctl_t)(~0U))-2)
>
> /* Max number of objs-per-slab for caches which use off-slab slabs.
> @@ -355,6 +355,7 @@ struct kmem_cache_s {
> #if DEBUG
> int dbghead;
> int reallen;
> + unsigned long redzonetest;
> #endif
> };
>
> @@ -370,6 +371,7 @@ struct kmem_cache_s {
> */
> #define REAPTIMEOUT_CPUC (2*HZ)
> #define REAPTIMEOUT_LIST3 (4*HZ)
> +#define REDZONETIMEOUT (300*HZ)
>
> #if STATS
> #define STATS_INC_ACTIVE(x) ((x)->num_active++)
> @@ -1446,7 +1448,11 @@ next:
> }
>
> cachep->lists.next_reap = jiffies + REAPTIMEOUT_LIST3 +
> - ((unsigned long)cachep)%REAPTIMEOUT_LIST3;
> + ((unsigned long)cachep/L1_CACHE_BYTES)%REAPTIMEOUT_LIST3;
> +#if DEBUG
> + cachep->redzonetest = jiffies + REDZONETIMEOUT +
> + ((unsigned long)cachep/L1_CACHE_BYTES)%REDZONETIMEOUT;
> +#endif
>
> /* Need the semaphore to access the chain. */
> down(&cache_chain_sem);
> @@ -2043,7 +2049,7 @@ retry:
> slabp->inuse++;
> next = slab_bufctl(slabp)[slabp->free];
> #if DEBUG
> - slab_bufctl(slabp)[slabp->free] = BUFCTL_FREE;
> + slab_bufctl(slabp)[slabp->free] = BUFCTL_ALLOC;
> #endif
> slabp->free = next;
> }
> @@ -2181,7 +2187,7 @@ static void free_block(kmem_cache_t *cac
> objnr = (objp - slabp->s_mem) / cachep->objsize;
> check_slabp(cachep, slabp);
> #if DEBUG
> - if (slab_bufctl(slabp)[objnr] != BUFCTL_FREE) {
> + if (slab_bufctl(slabp)[objnr] != BUFCTL_ALLOC) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "slab: double free detected in cache '%s', objp %p.\n",
> cachep->name, objp);
> BUG();
> @@ -2409,7 +2415,7 @@ got_slabp:
> slabp->inuse++;
> next = slab_bufctl(slabp)[slabp->free];
> #if DEBUG
> - slab_bufctl(slabp)[slabp->free] = BUFCTL_FREE;
> + slab_bufctl(slabp)[slabp->free] = BUFCTL_ALLOC;
> #endif
> slabp->free = next;
> check_slabp(cachep, slabp);
> @@ -2615,6 +2621,94 @@ unsigned int kmem_cache_size(kmem_cache_
>
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_size);
>
> +#if DEBUG
> +static void check_slabuse(kmem_cache_t *cachep, struct slab *slabp)
> +{
> + int i;
> +
> + if (!(cachep->flags & SLAB_RED_ZONE))
> + return; /* no redzone data to check */
> +
> +#if CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> + /* Page alloc debugging on for this cache. Mapping & Unmapping happens
> + * without any locking, thus parallel checks are impossible.
> + */
> + if ((cachep->objsize%PAGE_SIZE)==0 && OFF_SLAB(cachep))
> + return;
> +#endif
> +
> + for (i=0;i<cachep->num;i++) {
> + void *objp = slabp->s_mem + cachep->objsize * i;
> + unsigned long red1, red2;
> +
> + red1 = *dbg_redzone1(cachep, objp);
> + red2 = *dbg_redzone2(cachep, objp);
> +
> + /* simplest case: marked as inactive */
> + if (red1 == RED_INACTIVE && red2 == RED_INACTIVE)
> + continue;
> +
> + /* tricky case: if the bufctl value is BUFCTL_ALLOC, then
> + * the object is either allocated or somewhere in a cpu
> + * cache. The cpu caches are lockless and there might be
> + * a concurrent alloc/free call, thus we must accept random
> + * combinations of RED_ACTIVE and _INACTIVE
> + */
> + if (slab_bufctl(slabp)[i] == BUFCTL_ALLOC &&
> + (red1 == RED_INACTIVE || red1 == RED_ACTIVE) &&
> + (red2 == RED_INACTIVE || red2 == RED_ACTIVE))
> + continue;
> +
> + printk(KERN_ERR "slab %s: redzone mismatch in slabp %p, objp %p, bufctl 0x%x\n",
> + cachep->name, slabp, objp, slab_bufctl(slabp)[i]);
> + print_objinfo(cachep, objp, 2);
> + }
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Perform a self test on all slabs from a cache
> + */
> +static void check_redzone(kmem_cache_t *cachep)
> +{
> + struct list_head *q;
> + struct slab *slabp;
> +
> + check_spinlock_acquired(cachep);
> +
> + list_for_each(q,&cachep->lists.slabs_full) {
> + slabp = list_entry(q, struct slab, list);
> +
> + if (slabp->inuse != cachep->num) {
> + printk(KERN_INFO "slab %s: wrong slabp found in full slab chain at %p (%d/%d).\n",
> + cachep->name, slabp, slabp->inuse, cachep->num);
> + }
> + check_slabp(cachep, slabp);
> + check_slabuse(cachep, slabp);
> + }
> + list_for_each(q,&cachep->lists.slabs_partial) {
> + slabp = list_entry(q, struct slab, list);
> +
> + if (slabp->inuse == cachep->num || slabp->inuse == 0) {
> + printk(KERN_INFO "slab %s: wrong slab found in partial chain at %p (%d/%d).\n",
> + cachep->name, slabp, slabp->inuse, cachep->num);
> + }
> + check_slabp(cachep, slabp);
> + check_slabuse(cachep, slabp);
> + }
> + list_for_each(q,&cachep->lists.slabs_free) {
> + slabp = list_entry(q, struct slab, list);
> +
> + if (slabp->inuse != 0) {
> + printk(KERN_INFO "slab %s: wrong slab found in free chain at %p (%d/%d).\n",
> + cachep->name, slabp, slabp->inuse, cachep->num);
> + }
> + check_slabp(cachep, slabp);
> + check_slabuse(cachep, slabp);
> + }
> +}
> +
> +#endif
> +
> struct ccupdate_struct {
> kmem_cache_t *cachep;
> struct array_cache *new[NR_CPUS];
> @@ -2798,6 +2892,12 @@ static void cache_reap(void *unused)
>
> drain_array_locked(searchp, ac_data(searchp), 0);
>
> +#if DEBUG
> + if(time_before(searchp->redzonetest, jiffies)) {
> + searchp->redzonetest = jiffies + REDZONETIMEOUT;
> + check_redzone(searchp);
> + }
> +#endif
> if(time_after(searchp->lists.next_reap, jiffies))
> goto next_unlock;
>
>
>

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