Re: [PATCH RT] mm/slub: close possible memory-leak in kmem_cache_alloc_bulk()

[Jesper Dangaard Brouer]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 15:05:55 +0100
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Under certain circumstances we could leak elements which were moved to
> the local "to_free" list. The damage is limited since I can't find any
> users here.
> 
> Cc: stable-rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Jesper: There are no users of kmem_cache_alloc_bulk() and kfree_bulk().
> Only kmem_cache_free_bulk() is used since it was introduced. Do you
> think that it would make sense to remove those?

I would like to keep them.

Rao Shoaib (Cc'ed) is/was working on a patchset for RCU-bulk-free that
used the kfree_bulk() API.

I plan to use kmem_cache_alloc_bulk() in the bpf-map "cpumap", for bulk
allocating SKBs during dequeue of XDP frames.  (My original bulk alloc
SKBs use-case during NAPI/softirq was never merged).


>  mm/slub.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index ffd2fa0f415e..9053e929ce9d 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -3240,6 +3240,7 @@ int kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, size_t size,
>  	return i;
>  error:
>  	local_irq_enable();
> +	free_delayed(&to_free);
>  	slab_post_alloc_hook(s, flags, i, p);
>  	__kmem_cache_free_bulk(s, i, p);
>  	return 0;

I've not seen free_delayed() before... and my cscope cannot find it...

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Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer