From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755776AbdBOXmG (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2017 18:42:06 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:54399 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753930AbdBOXmD (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2017 18:42:03 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Mathieu Desnoyers" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Daniel Mentz" , "Will Deacon" Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 22:41:40 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.16 176/306] lib/genalloc.c: start search from start of chunk In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a02:8011:400e:2:6f00:88c8:c921:d332 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.16.40-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Daniel Mentz commit 62e931fac45b17c2a42549389879411572f75804 upstream. gen_pool_alloc_algo() iterates over the chunks of a pool trying to find a contiguous block of memory that satisfies the allocation request. The shortcut if (size > atomic_read(&chunk->avail)) continue; makes the loop skip over chunks that do not have enough bytes left to fulfill the request. There are two situations, though, where an allocation might still fail: (1) The available memory is not contiguous, i.e. the request cannot be fulfilled due to external fragmentation. (2) A race condition. Another thread runs the same code concurrently and is quicker to grab the available memory. In those situations, the loop calls pool->algo() to search the entire chunk, and pool->algo() returns some value that is >= end_bit to indicate that the search failed. This return value is then assigned to start_bit. The variables start_bit and end_bit describe the range that should be searched, and this range should be reset for every chunk that is searched. Today, the code fails to reset start_bit to 0. As a result, prefixes of subsequent chunks are ignored. Memory allocations might fail even though there is plenty of room left in these prefixes of those other chunks. Fixes: 7f184275aa30 ("lib, Make gen_pool memory allocator lockless") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477420604-28918-1-git-send-email-danielmentz@google.com Signed-off-by: Daniel Mentz Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Acked-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- lib/genalloc.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/lib/genalloc.c +++ b/lib/genalloc.c @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ unsigned long gen_pool_alloc(struct gen_ struct gen_pool_chunk *chunk; unsigned long addr = 0; int order = pool->min_alloc_order; - int nbits, start_bit = 0, end_bit, remain; + int nbits, start_bit, end_bit, remain; #ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG BUG_ON(in_nmi()); @@ -288,6 +288,7 @@ unsigned long gen_pool_alloc(struct gen_ if (size > atomic_read(&chunk->avail)) continue; + start_bit = 0; end_bit = chunk_size(chunk) >> order; retry: start_bit = pool->algo(chunk->bits, end_bit, start_bit, nbits,