linux/mm
Christoph Lameter c6f58d9b36 slub: Handle NULL parameter in kmem_cache_flags
Andreas Herrmann writes:

  When I've used slub_debug kernel option (e.g.
  "slub_debug=,skbuff_fclone_cache" or similar) on a debug session I've
  seen a panic like:

    Highbank #setenv bootargs console=ttyAMA0 root=/dev/sda2 kgdboc.kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200 slub_debug=,kmalloc-4096 earlyprintk=ttyAMA0
    ...
    Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
    pgd = c0004000
    [00000000] *pgd=00000000
    Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM
    Modules linked in:
    CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Tainted: G        W    3.12.0-00048-gbe408cd #314
    task: c0898360 ti: c088a000 task.ti: c088a000
    PC is at strncmp+0x1c/0x84
    LR is at kmem_cache_flags.isra.46.part.47+0x44/0x60
    pc : [<c02c6da0>]    lr : [<c0110a3c>]    psr: 200001d3
    sp : c088bea8  ip : c088beb8  fp : c088beb4
    r10: 00000000  r9 : 413fc090  r8 : 00000001
    r7 : 00000000  r6 : c2984a08  r5 : c0966e78  r4 : 00000000
    r3 : 0000006b  r2 : 0000000c  r1 : 00000000  r0 : c2984a08
    Flags: nzCv  IRQs off  FIQs off  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment kernel
    Control: 10c5387d  Table: 0000404a  DAC: 00000015
    Process swapper (pid: 0, stack limit = 0xc088a248)
    Stack: (0xc088bea8 to 0xc088c000)
    bea0:                   c088bed4 c088beb8 c0110a3c c02c6d90 c0966e78 00000040
    bec0: ef001f00 00000040 c088bf14 c088bed8 c0112070 c0110a04 00000005 c010fac8
    bee0: c088bf5c c088bef0 c010fac8 ef001f00 00000040 00000000 00000040 00000001
    bf00: 413fc090 00000000 c088bf34 c088bf18 c0839190 c0112040 00000000 ef001f00
    bf20: 00000000 00000000 c088bf54 c088bf38 c0839200 c083914c 00000006 c0961c4c
    bf40: c0961c28 00000000 c088bf7c c088bf58 c08392ac c08391c0 c08a2ed8 c0966e78
    bf60: c086b874 c08a3f50 c0961c28 00000001 c088bfb4 c088bf80 c083b258 c0839248
    bf80: 2f800000 0f000000 c08935b4 ffffffff c08cd400 ffffffff c08cd400 c0868408
    bfa0: c29849c0 00000000 c088bff4 c088bfb8 c0824974 c083b1e4 ffffffff ffffffff
    bfc0: c08245c0 00000000 00000000 c0868408 00000000 10c5387d c0892bcc c0868404
    bfe0: c0899440 0000406a 00000000 c088bff8 00008074 c0824824 00000000 00000000
    [<c02c6da0>] (strncmp+0x1c/0x84) from [<c0110a3c>] (kmem_cache_flags.isra.46.part.47+0x44/0x60)
    [<c0110a3c>] (kmem_cache_flags.isra.46.part.47+0x44/0x60) from [<c0112070>] (__kmem_cache_create+0x3c/0x410)
    [<c0112070>] (__kmem_cache_create+0x3c/0x410) from [<c0839190>] (create_boot_cache+0x50/0x74)
    [<c0839190>] (create_boot_cache+0x50/0x74) from [<c0839200>] (create_kmalloc_cache+0x4c/0x88)
    [<c0839200>] (create_kmalloc_cache+0x4c/0x88) from [<c08392ac>] (create_kmalloc_caches+0x70/0x114)
    [<c08392ac>] (create_kmalloc_caches+0x70/0x114) from [<c083b258>] (kmem_cache_init+0x80/0xe0)
    [<c083b258>] (kmem_cache_init+0x80/0xe0) from [<c0824974>] (start_kernel+0x15c/0x318)
    [<c0824974>] (start_kernel+0x15c/0x318) from [<00008074>] (0x8074)
    Code: e3520000 01a00002 089da800 e5d03000 (e5d1c000)
    ---[ end trace 1b75b31a2719ed1d ]---
    Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

  Problem is that slub_debug option is not parsed before
  create_boot_cache is called. Solve this by changing slub_debug to
  early_param.

  Kernels 3.11, 3.10 are also affected.  I am not sure about older
  kernels.

Christoph Lameter explains:

  kmem_cache_flags may be called with NULL parameter during early boot.
  Skip the test in that case.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10 and 3.11
Reported-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann@calxeda.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-11-11 18:15:45 +02:00
..
backing-dev.c sysfs.h: add __ATTR_RW() macro 2013-07-16 10:57:36 -07:00
balloon_compaction.c mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility 2012-12-11 17:22:26 -08:00
bootmem.c mm: kill free_all_bootmem_node() 2013-07-03 16:07:39 -07:00
bounce.c Merge branch 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2013-05-08 10:13:35 -07:00
cleancache.c mm: cleancache: clean up cleancache_enabled 2013-04-30 17:04:01 -07:00
compaction.c mm: add & use zone_end_pfn() and zone_spans_pfn() 2013-02-23 17:50:20 -08:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c dmapool: make DMAPOOL_DEBUG detect corruption of free marker 2012-12-11 17:22:24 -08:00
fadvise.c teach SYSCALL_DEFINE<n> how to deal with long long/unsigned long long 2013-03-03 22:46:22 -05:00
failslab.c
filemap_xip.c lift sb_start_write() out of ->write() 2013-04-09 14:12:56 -04:00
filemap.c mm: remove unused VM_<READfoo> macros and expand other in-place 2013-07-09 10:33:23 -07:00
fremap.c mm: save soft-dirty bits on file pages 2013-08-13 17:57:48 -07:00
frontswap.c frontswap: fix incorrect zeroing and allocation size for frontswap_map 2013-06-12 16:29:46 -07:00
highmem.c Some nice cleanups, and even a patch my wife did as a "live" demo for 2012-12-20 08:37:05 -08:00
huge_memory.c thp, mm: avoid PageUnevictable on active/inactive lru lists 2013-07-31 14:41:03 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c mm/hugetlb: create hugetlb cgroup file in hugetlb_init 2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
hugetlb.c Fix TLB gather virtual address range invalidation corner cases 2013-08-16 08:52:46 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c memcg: rename config variables 2012-07-31 18:42:43 -07:00
init-mm.c
internal.h mm: remove unused __put_page() 2013-07-09 10:33:22 -07:00
interval_tree.c mm: add CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_RB build option 2012-10-09 16:22:42 +09:00
Kconfig zswap: add to mm/ 2013-07-10 18:11:34 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators 2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00
ksm.c ksm: fix m68k build: only NUMA needs pfn_to_nid 2013-03-08 15:05:34 -08:00
maccess.c
madvise.c mm: madvise: complete input validation before taking lock 2013-04-29 15:54:37 -07:00
Makefile zswap: add to mm/ 2013-07-10 18:11:34 -07:00
memblock.c mm/memblock.c: fix wrong comment in __next_free_mem_range() 2013-07-09 10:33:23 -07:00
memcontrol.c memcg: get rid of swapaccount leftovers 2013-08-23 09:51:22 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm/memory_hotplug.c: fix return value of online_pages() 2013-07-09 10:33:25 -07:00
memory-failure.c mm/memory-failure.c: fix memory leak in successful soft offlining 2013-07-03 16:07:31 -07:00
memory.c Fix TLB gather virtual address range invalidation corner cases 2013-08-16 08:52:46 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm: mempolicy: fix mbind_range() && vma_adjust() interaction 2013-07-31 14:41:02 -07:00
mempool.c
migrate.c mm: migration: add migrate_entry_wait_huge() 2013-06-12 16:29:46 -07:00
mincore.c swap: make each swap partition have one address_space 2013-02-23 17:50:17 -08:00
mlock.c Revert "mm: introduce VM_POPULATE flag to better deal with racy userspace programs" 2013-03-28 17:45:51 -07:00
mm_init.c mm: tune vm_committed_as percpu_counter batching size 2013-07-03 16:07:32 -07:00
mmap.c Fix TLB gather virtual address range invalidation corner cases 2013-08-16 08:52:46 -07:00
mmu_context.c mm: remove old aio use_mm() comment 2013-05-07 18:38:27 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c treewide: relase -> release 2013-06-28 14:34:33 +02:00
mmzone.c mm: rename page struct field helpers 2013-02-23 17:50:18 -08:00
mprotect.c mm/mprotect.c: coding-style cleanups 2012-12-18 15:02:15 -08:00
mremap.c mm: move_ptes -- Set soft dirty bit depending on pte type 2013-08-27 09:36:17 -07:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c mm: concentrate modification of totalram_pages into the mm core 2013-07-03 16:07:33 -07:00
nommu.c mm: remove free_area_cache 2013-07-10 18:11:34 -07:00
oom_kill.c memcg, oom: provide more precise dump info while memcg oom happening 2013-02-23 17:50:08 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm: honor min_free_kbytes set by user 2013-07-09 10:33:25 -07:00
page_cgroup.c memcontrol: use N_MEMORY instead N_HIGH_MEMORY 2012-12-12 17:38:32 -08:00
page_io.c mm: remove compressed copy from zram in-memory 2013-07-03 16:07:26 -07:00
page_isolation.c mm: fix zone_watermark_ok_safe() accounting of isolated pages 2013-01-04 16:11:46 -08:00
page-writeback.c kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
pagewalk.c mm/pagewalk.c: walk_page_range should avoid VM_PFNMAP areas 2013-05-24 16:22:53 -07:00
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c mm, percpu: Make sure percpu_alloc early parameter has an argument 2012-12-02 06:23:04 -08:00
pgtable-generic.c mm/THP: add pmd args to pgtable deposit and withdraw APIs 2013-06-20 16:55:07 +10:00
process_vm_access.c Fix: compat_rw_copy_check_uvector() misuse in aio, readv, writev, and security keys 2013-03-12 11:05:45 -07:00
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm: change invalidatepage prototype to accept length 2013-05-21 23:17:23 -04:00
rmap.c mm: save soft-dirty bits on file pages 2013-08-13 17:57:48 -07:00
shmem.c cope with potentially long ->d_dname() output for shmem/hugetlb 2013-08-24 12:10:17 -04:00
slab_common.c Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux 2013-07-14 15:14:29 -07:00
slab.c slab: replace non-existing 'struct freelist *' with 'void *' 2013-10-30 14:09:12 +02:00
slab.h memcg: check that kmem_cache has memcg_params before accessing it 2013-08-28 19:26:38 -07:00
slob.c Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux 2013-07-14 15:14:29 -07:00
slub.c slub: Handle NULL parameter in kmem_cache_flags 2013-11-11 18:15:45 +02:00
sparse-vmemmap.c sparse-vmemmap: specify vmemmap population range in bytes 2013-04-29 15:54:35 -07:00
sparse.c mm/sparse.c: put clear_hwpoisoned_pages within CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE 2013-07-09 10:33:22 -07:00
swap_state.c swap: avoid read_swap_cache_async() race to deadlock while waiting on discard I/O completion 2013-06-12 16:29:45 -07:00
swap.c thp, mm: avoid PageUnevictable on active/inactive lru lists 2013-07-31 14:41:03 -07:00
swapfile.c mm: save soft-dirty bits on swapped pages 2013-08-13 17:57:47 -07:00
truncate.c mm: teach truncate_inode_pages_range() to handle non page aligned ranges 2013-05-27 23:32:35 -04:00
util.c mm: remove free_area_cache 2013-07-10 18:11:34 -07:00
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc.c: fix an overflow bug in alloc_vmap_area() 2013-07-09 10:33:23 -07:00
vmpressure.c vmpressure: make sure there are no events queued after memcg is offlined 2013-07-31 14:41:04 -07:00
vmscan.c mm: vmscan: do not scale writeback pages when deciding whether to set ZONE_WRITEBACK 2013-07-09 10:33:23 -07:00
vmstat.c kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
zbud.c mm: zbud: fix condition check on allocation size 2013-07-31 14:41:03 -07:00
zswap.c zswap: add to mm/ 2013-07-10 18:11:34 -07:00