[PATCH v2] mm: slub: fix conversion of freelist_corrupted()

[Eugeniu Rosca]

Commit 52f23478081ae0 ("mm/slub.c: fix corrupted freechain in
deactivate_slab()") suffered an update when picked up from LKML [1].

Specifically, relocating 'freelist = NULL' into 'freelist_corrupted()'
created a no-op statement. Fix it by sticking to the behavior intended
in the original patch [1]. In addition, make freelist_corrupted()
immune to passing NULL instead of &freelist.

The issue has been spotted via static analysis and code review.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200331031450.12182-1-dongli.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx/

Fixes: 52f23478081ae0 ("mm/slub.c: fix corrupted freechain in deactivate_slab()")
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

v2:
 - Address the review finding from Dongli Zhang in:
   https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/f93a9f06-8608-6f28-27c0-b17f86dca55b@xxxxxxxxxx/

   -------8<-------
   This is good to me.
   However, this would confuse people when CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is not defined.
   While reading the source code, people may be curious why to reset freelist when
   CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is even not defined.
   -------8<-------

v1:
 - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200811124656.10308-1-erosca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

 mm/slub.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 68c02b2eecd9..d4177aecedf6 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -672,12 +672,12 @@ static void slab_fix(struct kmem_cache *s, char *fmt, ...)
 }
 
 static bool freelist_corrupted(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page,
-			       void *freelist, void *nextfree)
+			       void **freelist, void *nextfree)
 {
 	if ((s->flags & SLAB_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS) &&
-	    !check_valid_pointer(s, page, nextfree)) {
-		object_err(s, page, freelist, "Freechain corrupt");
-		freelist = NULL;
+	    !check_valid_pointer(s, page, nextfree) && freelist) {
+		object_err(s, page, *freelist, "Freechain corrupt");
+		*freelist = NULL;
 		slab_fix(s, "Isolate corrupted freechain");
 		return true;
 	}
@@ -1494,7 +1494,7 @@ static inline void dec_slabs_node(struct kmem_cache *s, int node,
 							int objects) {}
 
 static bool freelist_corrupted(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page,
-			       void *freelist, void *nextfree)
+			       void **freelist, void *nextfree)
 {
 	return false;
 }
@@ -2184,7 +2184,7 @@ static void deactivate_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page,
 		 * 'freelist' is already corrupted.  So isolate all objects
 		 * starting at 'freelist'.
 		 */
-		if (freelist_corrupted(s, page, freelist, nextfree))
+		if (freelist_corrupted(s, page, &freelist, nextfree))
 			break;
 
 		do {
-- 
2.28.0