+ mm-slub-add-taint-after-the-errors-are-printed.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm@linux-foundation.org]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm/slub: add taint after the errors are printed
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mm-slub-add-taint-after-the-errors-are-printed.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-slub-add-taint-after-the-errors-are-printed.patch
and later at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-slub-add-taint-after-the-errors-are-printed.patch

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From: Georgi Djakov <quic_c_gdjako@quicinc.com>
Subject: mm/slub: add taint after the errors are printed

When running the kernel with panic_on_taint, the usual slub debug error
messages are not being printed when object corruption happens.  That's
because we panic in add_taint(), which is called before printing the
additional information.  This is a bit unfortunate as the error messages
are actually very useful, especially before a panic.  Let's fix this by
moving add_taint() after the errors are printed on the console.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1623860738-146761-1-git-send-email-quic_c_gdjako@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Georgi Djakov <quic_c_gdjako@quicinc.com>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/slub.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/slub.c~mm-slub-add-taint-after-the-errors-are-printed
+++ a/mm/slub.c
@@ -708,8 +708,6 @@ static void slab_bug(struct kmem_cache *
 	pr_err("=============================================================================\n");
 	pr_err("BUG %s (%s): %pV\n", s->name, print_tainted(), &vaf);
 	pr_err("-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n");
-
-	add_taint(TAINT_BAD_PAGE, LOCKDEP_NOW_UNRELIABLE);
 	va_end(args);
 }
 
@@ -790,6 +788,7 @@ void object_err(struct kmem_cache *s, st
 
 	slab_bug(s, "%s", reason);
 	print_trailer(s, page, object);
+	add_taint(TAINT_BAD_PAGE, LOCKDEP_NOW_UNRELIABLE);
 }
 
 static __printf(3, 4) void slab_err(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page,
@@ -807,6 +806,7 @@ static __printf(3, 4) void slab_err(stru
 	slab_bug(s, "%s", buf);
 	print_page_info(page);
 	dump_stack();
+	add_taint(TAINT_BAD_PAGE, LOCKDEP_NOW_UNRELIABLE);
 }
 
 static void init_object(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object, u8 val)
@@ -858,6 +858,7 @@ static int check_bytes_and_report(struct
 					fault, end - 1, fault - addr,
 					fault[0], value);
 	print_trailer(s, page, object);
+	add_taint(TAINT_BAD_PAGE, LOCKDEP_NOW_UNRELIABLE);
 
 skip_bug_print:
 	restore_bytes(s, what, value, fault, end);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from quic_c_gdjako@quicinc.com are

mm-slub-add-taint-after-the-errors-are-printed.patch