Re: [PATCH] slub: fix kmalloc_pagealloc_invalid_free unit test

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Mon Aug 02 2021 - 19:52:32 EST


On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 11:08:18AM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> The unit test kmalloc_pagealloc_invalid_free makes sure that for the
> higher order slub allocation which goes to page allocator, the free is
> called with the correct address i.e. the virtual address of the head
> page.
>
> The commit f227f0faf63b ("slub: fix unreclaimable slab stat for bulk
> free") unified the free code paths for page allocator based slub
> allocations but instead of using the address passed by the caller, it
> extracted the address from the page. Thus making the unit test
> kmalloc_pagealloc_invalid_free moot. So, fix this by using the address
> passed by the caller.
>
> Should we fix this? I think yes because dev expect kasan to catch these
> type of programming bugs.
>
> Fixes: f227f0faf63b ("slub: fix unreclaimable slab stat for bulk free")
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you for the quick fix! It passes my tests on arm64 and x86_64 in
QEMU with a few different clang versions.

Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> mm/slub.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index af984e4990e8..60aeedc436d5 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -3236,12 +3236,12 @@ struct detached_freelist {
> struct kmem_cache *s;
> };
>
> -static inline void free_nonslab_page(struct page *page)
> +static inline void free_nonslab_page(struct page *page, void *object)
> {
> unsigned int order = compound_order(page);
>
> VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageCompound(page), page);
> - kfree_hook(page_address(page));
> + kfree_hook(object);
> mod_lruvec_page_state(page, NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE_B, -(PAGE_SIZE << order));
> __free_pages(page, order);
> }
> @@ -3282,7 +3282,7 @@ int build_detached_freelist(struct kmem_cache *s, size_t size,
> if (!s) {
> /* Handle kalloc'ed objects */
> if (unlikely(!PageSlab(page))) {
> - free_nonslab_page(page);
> + free_nonslab_page(page, object);
> p[size] = NULL; /* mark object processed */
> return size;
> }
> @@ -4258,7 +4258,7 @@ void kfree(const void *x)
>
> page = virt_to_head_page(x);
> if (unlikely(!PageSlab(page))) {
> - free_nonslab_page(page);
> + free_nonslab_page(page, object);
> return;
> }
> slab_free(page->slab_cache, page, object, NULL, 1, _RET_IP_);
> --
> 2.32.0.554.ge1b32706d8-goog
>
>