From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] slub: fix per cpu kmem_cache_cpu array memory leak
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:58:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020901280058h36fedf37j600185c255db5e2a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233132733.16201.0.camel@penberg-laptop>
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 18:59 -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
>> The per cpu array of kmem_cache_cpu structures accomodates
>> NR_KMEM_CACHE_CPU such structs.
>>
>> When this array overflows and a struct is allocated by kmalloc(), it may
>> have an address at the upper bound of this array. If this happens, it
>> does not get freed and the per cpu kmem_cache_cpu_free pointer will be out
>> of bounds after kmem_cache_destroy() or cpu offlining.
>>
>> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
>> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> Applied, thanks!
Btw, did you hit this bug during testing or did you just spot it
during review? That is, do we need to get this to -stable?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-28 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-28 2:59 David Rientjes
2009-01-28 8:52 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-28 8:58 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2009-01-28 9:20 ` David Rientjes
2009-01-28 9:27 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-28 16:40 ` Christoph Lameter
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