Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/slub: Fix slab_mutex circular locking problem in slab_attr_store()

From: Waiman Long
Date: Mon Apr 27 2020 - 14:16:30 EST


On 4/24/20 12:16 PM, Qian Cai wrote:

On Apr 24, 2020, at 11:12 AM, Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 183ccc364ccf..255981180489 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -5567,13 +5567,30 @@ static ssize_t slab_attr_store(struct kobject *kobj,
return -EIO;

err = attribute->store(s, buf, len);
-#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
- if (slab_state >= FULL && err >= 0 && is_root_cache(s)) {
- struct kmem_cache *c;
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
+ if (slab_state >= FULL && err >= 0 && is_root_cache(s) &&
+ !list_empty(&s->memcg_params.children)) {
+ struct kmem_cache *c, **pcaches;
+ int idx, max, cnt = 0;
+ size_t size = s->max_attr_size;
+ struct memcg_cache_array *arr;
+
+ /*
+ * Make atomic update to s->max_attr_size.
+ */
+ do {
+ if (len <= size)
+ break;
+ } while (!try_cmpxchg(&s->max_attr_size, &size, len));

try_cmpxchg() is only available on x86.

mm/slub.c: In function âslab_attr_storeâ:
mm/slub.c:5613:13: error: implicit declaration of function âtry_cmpxchgâ; did you mean âxa_cmpxchgâ? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
} while (!try_cmpxchg(&s->max_attr_size, &size, len));
^~~~~~~~~~~
xa_cmpxchg

Oh, sorry about that. Will fix it and send out v2.

Cheers,
Longman