[RFC PATCH 01/14] mm/slub: don't try to dereference invalid freepointers

[Matteo Rizzo]

slab_free_freelist_hook tries to read a freelist pointer from the
current object even when freeing a single object. This is invalid
because single objects don't actually contain a freelist pointer when
they're freed and the memory contains other data. This causes problems
for checking the integrity of freelist in get_freepointer.

Signed-off-by: Matteo Rizzo <matteorizzo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/slub.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index f7940048138c..a7dae207c2d2 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1820,7 +1820,9 @@ static inline bool slab_free_freelist_hook(struct kmem_cache *s,
 
 	do {
 		object = next;
-		next = get_freepointer(s, object);
+		/* Single objects don't actually contain a freepointer */
+		if (object != old_tail)
+			next = get_freepointer(s, object);
 
 		/* If object's reuse doesn't have to be delayed */
 		if (!slab_free_hook(s, object, slab_want_init_on_free(s))) {
-- 
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