[PATCH v3 0/2] mm: slub: Enhanced debugging in slub error

From: Hyesoo Yu
Date: Wed Feb 19 2025 - 22:42:06 EST


Dear Maintainer,

The purpose is to improve the debugging capabilities of the slub allocator
when a error occurs. The following improvements have been made:

- Added WARN() calls at specific locations (slab_err, object_err) to detect
errors effectively and to generate a crash dump if panic_on_warn is enabled.

- Additionally, the printing location in check_object has been adjusted to
display the broken data before the restoration process. This improvement
allows for a better understanding of how the data was corrupted.

This series combines two patches that were discussed seperately in the links below.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250120082908.4162780-1-hyesoo.yu@xxxxxxxxxxx/
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250120083023.4162932-1-hyesoo.yu@xxxxxxxxxxx/

Thanks you.

version 2 changes
- Used WARN() to trigger a panic instead of direct calling of BUG_ON()
- Print the broken data only once before the restore.

version 3 changes
- Move WARN() from slab_fix to slab_err and object to call WARN on
all error reporting paths.
- Change the parameter t ype of check_bytes_and_report.

Hyesoo Yu (2):
mm: slub: Print the broken data before restoring slub.
mm: slub: call WARN() when the slab detect an error

mm/slub.c | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

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