Re: [PATCH] mm/slub: Fix incorrect checkings of s->offset

[Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>]

On 4/27/20 8:38 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 10:02:12PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>> In a couple of places in the slub memory allocator, the code uses
>> "s->offset" as a check to see if the free pointer is put right after the
>> object. That check is no longer true with commit 3202fa62fb43 ("slub:
>> relocate freelist pointer to middle of object").
>>
>> As a result, echoing "1" into the validate sysfs file, e.g. of dentry,
>> may cause a bunch of "Freepointer corrupt" error reports to appear with
>> the system in panic afterwards.
>>
>> To fix it, use the check "s->offset == s->inuse" instead.
> I think a little refactoring would make this more clear.
>
> unsigned int track_offset(const struct kmem_cache *s)
> {
> 	return s->inuse + (s->offset == s->inuse) ? sizeof(void *) : 0;
> }

Yes, that was what I am thinking of doing in v2.

Thanks,
Longman