[RESEND PATCH] slub: fix high order page allocation problem with __GFP_NOFAIL

From: Joonsoo Kim
Date: Wed Mar 12 2014 - 04:26:28 EST


SLUB already try to allocate high order page with clearing __GFP_NOFAIL.
But, when allocating shadow page for kmemcheck, it missed clearing
the flag. This trigger WARN_ON_ONCE() reported by Christian Casteyde.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65991
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/3/764

This patch fix this situation by using same allocation flag as original
allocation.

Reported-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 3508ede..d43b063 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1348,11 +1348,12 @@ static struct page *allocate_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node)
page = alloc_slab_page(alloc_gfp, node, oo);
if (unlikely(!page)) {
oo = s->min;
+ alloc_gfp = flags;
/*
* Allocation may have failed due to fragmentation.
* Try a lower order alloc if possible
*/
- page = alloc_slab_page(flags, node, oo);
+ page = alloc_slab_page(alloc_gfp, node, oo);

if (page)
stat(s, ORDER_FALLBACK);
@@ -1362,7 +1363,7 @@ static struct page *allocate_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node)
&& !(s->flags & (SLAB_NOTRACK | DEBUG_DEFAULT_FLAGS))) {
int pages = 1 << oo_order(oo);

- kmemcheck_alloc_shadow(page, oo_order(oo), flags, node);
+ kmemcheck_alloc_shadow(page, oo_order(oo), alloc_gfp, node);

/*
* Objects from caches that have a constructor don't get
--
1.7.9.5

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