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authorSean Rees <[email protected]>2017-02-08 14:30:59 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2017-02-08 15:41:43 -0800
commita810007afe239d59c1115fcaa06eb5b480f876e9 (patch)
tree25bbc5efa479af7cb1ca2defeeffb2040600a2fd
parent4d59b6ccf000862beed6fc0765d3209f98a8d8a2 (diff)
mm/slub.c: fix random_seq offset destruction
Commit 210e7a43fa90 ("mm: SLUB freelist randomization") broke USB hub initialisation as described in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177551. Bail out early from init_cache_random_seq if s->random_seq is already initialised. This prevents destroying the previously computed random_seq offsets later in the function. If the offsets are destroyed, then shuffle_freelist will truncate page->freelist to just the first object (orphaning the rest). Fixes: 210e7a43fa90 ("mm: SLUB freelist randomization") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Sean Rees <[email protected]> Reported-by: <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Garnier <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--mm/slub.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 7aa6f433f4de..7ec0a965c6a3 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1422,6 +1422,10 @@ static int init_cache_random_seq(struct kmem_cache *s)
int err;
unsigned long i, count = oo_objects(s->oo);
+ /* Bailout if already initialised */
+ if (s->random_seq)
+ return 0;
+
err = cache_random_seq_create(s, count, GFP_KERNEL);
if (err) {
pr_err("SLUB: Unable to initialize free list for %s\n",