slub: fix a memory leak in get_partial_node()

commit 02d7633fa567be7bf55a993b79d2a31b95ce2227 upstream.

In the case which is below,

1. acquire slab for cpu partial list
2. free object to it by remote cpu
3. page->freelist = t

then memory leak is occurred.

Change acquire_slab() not to zap freelist when it works for cpu partial list.
I think it is a sufficient solution for fixing a memory leak.

Below is output of 'slabinfo -r kmalloc-256'
when './perf stat -r 30 hackbench 50 process 4000 > /dev/null' is done.

***Vanilla***
Sizes (bytes)     Slabs              Debug                Memory
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Object :     256  Total  :     468   Sanity Checks : Off  Total: 3833856
SlabObj:     256  Full   :     111   Redzoning     : Off  Used : 2004992
SlabSiz:    8192  Partial:     302   Poisoning     : Off  Loss : 1828864
Loss   :       0  CpuSlab:      55   Tracking      : Off  Lalig:       0
Align  :       8  Objects:      32   Tracing       : Off  Lpadd:       0

***Patched***
Sizes (bytes)     Slabs              Debug                Memory
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Object :     256  Total  :     300   Sanity Checks : Off  Total: 2457600
SlabObj:     256  Full   :     204   Redzoning     : Off  Used : 2348800
SlabSiz:    8192  Partial:      33   Poisoning     : Off  Loss :  108800
Loss   :       0  CpuSlab:      63   Tracking      : Off  Lalig:       0
Align  :       8  Objects:      32   Tracing       : Off  Lpadd:       0

Total and loss number is the impact of this patch.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index a99c785828c65bc79a3b6fe1df5bedeb34a2e2f1..af47188da4d30c4f2933d4cb78623b59b17ab696 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1506,15 +1506,19 @@ static inline void *acquire_slab(struct kmem_cache *s,
                freelist = page->freelist;
                counters = page->counters;
                new.counters = counters;
-               if (mode)
+               if (mode) {
                        new.inuse = page->objects;
+                       new.freelist = NULL;
+               } else {
+                       new.freelist = freelist;
+               }
 
                VM_BUG_ON(new.frozen);
                new.frozen = 1;
 
        } while (!__cmpxchg_double_slab(s, page,
                        freelist, counters,
-                       NULL, new.counters,
+                       new.freelist, new.counters,
                        "lock and freeze"));
 
        remove_partial(n, page);
@@ -1556,7 +1560,6 @@ static void *get_partial_node(struct kmem_cache *s,
                        object = t;
                        available =  page->objects - page->inuse;
                } else {
-                       page->freelist = t;
                        available = put_cpu_partial(s, page, 0);
                }
                if (kmem_cache_debug(s) || available > s->cpu_partial / 2)