Re: [PATCH] slab: ensure cache_alloc_refill terminates

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Pekka J Enberg wrote:

> If slab->inuse is corrupted, cache_alloc_refill can enter an infinite
> loop as detailed by Michael Richardson in the following post:
> <http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/16/292>.

We have seen that corruption too.

>  		check_spinlock_acquired(cachep);
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * The slab was either on partial or free list so
> +		 * there must be at least one object available for
> +		 * allocation.
> +		 */
> +		BUG_ON(slabp->inuse >= cachep->num);

slabp->inuse is an integer and we have seen it become -1. The proposed 
test will not catch those cases.
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