Re: [linux-next-20130422] Bug in SLAB?

[Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, Tetsuo Handa wrote:

> Glauber Costa wrote:
> > If I am right, the following (untested) patch should solve the problem.
>
> This patch did not help;
>
>   kmalloc(8 * 1024 * 1024, GFP_KERNEL)
>
> still causes both
>
>   include/linux/slab_def.h:136: warning: array subscript is above array bounds
>
> and
>
>   BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000058
>   IP: [<c10b9d76>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x26/0xb0
>
> .
>
> Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > What is MAX_ORDER on the architecture?
>
> In my environment (x86_32), the constants are
>
>   MAX_ORDER=11 PAGE_SHIFT=12 KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH=22 KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE=4194304
>

Ok so the maximum allocation is 11+12=23 which is 8M. KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE
amd KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH are wrong.

Take the -1 off the constants under #ifdef CONFIG_SLAB in

include/linux/slab.h
Index: linux/include/linux/slab.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/linux/slab.h	2013-04-29 12:44:42.339011800 -0500
+++ linux/include/linux/slab.h	2013-04-29 12:48:11.446435859 -0500
@@ -176,8 +176,8 @@ struct kmem_cache {
  * to do various tricks to work around compiler limitations in order to
  * ensure proper constant folding.
  */
-#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH	((MAX_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT - 1) <= 25 ? \
-				(MAX_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT - 1) : 25)
+#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH	((MAX_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT) <= 26 ? \
+				(MAX_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT) : 26)
 #define KMALLOC_SHIFT_MAX	KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH
 #define KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW	5
 #else
@@ -206,9 +206,9 @@ struct kmem_cache {
 #define KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE (1 << KMALLOC_SHIFT_LOW)
 #endif

-extern struct kmem_cache *kmalloc_caches[KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH + 1];
+extern struct kmem_cache *kmalloc_caches[KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH];
 #ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
-extern struct kmem_cache *kmalloc_dma_caches[KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH + 1];
+extern struct kmem_cache *kmalloc_dma_caches[KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH];
 #endif

 /*