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Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/6/18 6:38 AM, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:18 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> +CC Dmitry >> >> On 11/4/18 1:50 PM, Yangtao Li wrote: >>> WARN_ON() already contains an unlikely(), so it's not necessary to use >>> unlikely. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li >> >> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka >> >> Maybe also change it back to WARN_ON_ONCE? I already considered it while >> reviewing Dmitry's patch and wasn't sure. Now I think that what can >> happen is that either a kernel bug is introduced that _ONCE is enough to >> catch (two separate bugs introduced to both hit this would be rare, and >> in that case the second one will be reported after the first one is >> fixed), or this gets called with a user-supplied value, and then we want >> to avoid spamming dmesg with multiple warnings that the user could >> trigger at will. > > > If you asking me, I am fine both changes. > I was mainly interested in removing the bogus warnings that actually fire. OK thanks. Andrew can you update the patch to WARN_ON_ONCE? Changelog addition: Also change WARN_ON() back to WARN_ON_ONCE() to avoid potentially spamming dmesg with user-triggerable large allocations. > >>> --- >>> mm/slab_common.c | 4 +--- >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c >>> index 7eb8dc136c1c..4f54684f5435 100644 >>> --- a/mm/slab_common.c >>> +++ b/mm/slab_common.c >>> @@ -1029,10 +1029,8 @@ struct kmem_cache *kmalloc_slab(size_t size, gfp_t flags) >>> >>> index = size_index[size_index_elem(size)]; >>> } else { >>> - if (unlikely(size > KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE)) { >>> - WARN_ON(1); >>> + if (WARN_ON(size > KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE)) >>> return NULL; >>> - } >>> index = fls(size - 1); >>> } >>> >>> >>