* [PATCH] md/raid5: give the io_unit slab caches per-array names
@ 2026-09-20 9:15 Yogesh Gaur
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From: Yogesh Gaur @ 2026-09-20 9:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Song Liu, Yu Kuai
Cc: linux-raid, linux-kernel, Li Nan, Xiao Ni, Artur Paszkiewicz,
Yogesh Gaur, syzbot+2ef75c54d0b2ac5d00ba
Both raid5 log backends create their io_unit slab cache per array but
name it after the struct:
ppl_conf->io_kc = KMEM_CACHE(ppl_io_unit, 0);
log->io_kc = KMEM_CACHE(r5l_io_unit, 0);
KMEM_CACHE() passes the stringified type as the cache name, so every
array that enables PPL or attaches a journal asks for a cache called
"ppl_io_unit" or "r5l_io_unit". With two such arrays live at the same
time the second one trips kmem_cache_sanity_check():
kmem_cache of name 'ppl_io_unit' already exists
WARNING: mm/slab_common.c:112 at __kmem_cache_create_args+0xae/0x460
ppl_init_log+0x285/0x1310 drivers/md/raid5-ppl.c:1363
log_init drivers/md/raid5-log.h:138 [inline]
raid5_change_consistency_policy+0x255/0x740 drivers/md/raid5.c:9141
consistency_policy_store+0x7f/0x230 drivers/md/md.c:5883
md_attr_store+0x3b7/0x640 drivers/md/md.c:6158
which is reachable by any user that can write "ppl" to
md/consistency_policy on two arrays, and equally by assembling two
journalled arrays. The cache is created and destroyed correctly on
every path, so this is a name collision only - duplicate names confuse
slabtop and /proc/slabinfo, which is what the check is there to catch.
Build the name from the array instead, the way grow_stripes() already
does for the stripe_head cache in this driver, and fall back to the
mddev pointer for dm-raid where mdname() is the constant "mdX". The
buffer is sized like conf->cache_name[] because mdname() can return up
to DISK_NAME_LEN bytes.
The explicit size/align arguments keep what KMEM_CACHE() expanded to,
so object layout does not change.
Fixes: 3418d036c81d ("raid5-ppl: Partial Parity Log write logging implementation")
Fixes: f6bed0ef0a80 ("raid5: add basic stripe log")
Reported-by: syzbot+2ef75c54d0b2ac5d00ba@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=2ef75c54d0b2ac5d00ba
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Gaur <yogeshgaur.83@gmail.com>
---
drivers/md/raid5-cache.c | 12 +++++++++++-
drivers/md/raid5-ppl.c | 12 +++++++++++-
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c b/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c
index 7b7546bfa21f..47458a474adf 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c
@@ -3066,6 +3066,7 @@ int r5l_init_log(struct r5conf *conf, struct md_rdev *rdev)
{
struct r5l_log *log;
struct md_thread *thread;
+ char cache_name[48];
int ret;
pr_debug("md/raid:%s: using device %pg as journal\n",
@@ -3105,7 +3106,16 @@ int r5l_init_log(struct r5conf *conf, struct md_rdev *rdev)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&log->flushing_ios);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&log->finished_ios);
- log->io_kc = KMEM_CACHE(r5l_io_unit, 0);
+ if (mddev_is_dm(conf->mddev))
+ snprintf(cache_name, sizeof(cache_name), "r5l_io_unit-%p",
+ conf->mddev);
+ else
+ snprintf(cache_name, sizeof(cache_name), "r5l_io_unit-%s",
+ mdname(conf->mddev));
+
+ log->io_kc = kmem_cache_create(cache_name, sizeof(struct r5l_io_unit),
+ __alignof__(struct r5l_io_unit),
+ 0, NULL);
if (!log->io_kc)
goto io_kc;
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5-ppl.c b/drivers/md/raid5-ppl.c
index 7f8a9d3fd578..0530632f9d2a 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5-ppl.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5-ppl.c
@@ -1318,6 +1318,7 @@ int ppl_init_log(struct r5conf *conf)
{
struct ppl_conf *ppl_conf;
struct mddev *mddev = conf->mddev;
+ char cache_name[48];
int ret = 0;
int max_disks;
int i;
@@ -1360,7 +1361,16 @@ int ppl_init_log(struct r5conf *conf)
ppl_conf->mddev = mddev;
- ppl_conf->io_kc = KMEM_CACHE(ppl_io_unit, 0);
+ if (mddev_is_dm(mddev))
+ snprintf(cache_name, sizeof(cache_name), "ppl_io_unit-%p", mddev);
+ else
+ snprintf(cache_name, sizeof(cache_name), "ppl_io_unit-%s",
+ mdname(mddev));
+
+ ppl_conf->io_kc = kmem_cache_create(cache_name,
+ sizeof(struct ppl_io_unit),
+ __alignof__(struct ppl_io_unit),
+ 0, NULL);
if (!ppl_conf->io_kc) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto err;
--
2.55.0.windows.5
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