Revert "slub: do not put a slab to cpu partial list when cpu_partial is 0"

This reverts commit 318df36e57c0ca9f2146660d41ff28e8650af423.

This commit caused Steven Rostedt's hackbench runs to run out of memory
due to a leak.  As noted by Joonsoo Kim, it is buggy in the following
scenario:

 "I guess, you may set 0 to all kmem caches's cpu_partial via sysfs,
  doesn't it?

  In this case, memory leak is possible in following case.  Code flow of
  possible leak is follwing case.

   * in __slab_free()
   1. (!new.inuse || !prior) && !was_frozen
   2. !kmem_cache_debug && !prior
   3. new.frozen = 1
   4. after cmpxchg_double_slab, run the (!n) case with new.frozen=1
   5. with this patch, put_cpu_partial() doesn't do anything,
      because this cache's cpu_partial is 0
   6. return

  In step 5, leak occur"

And Steven does indeed have cpu_partial set to 0 due to RT testing.

Joonsoo is cooking up a patch, but everybody agrees that reverting this
for now is the right thing to do.

Reported-and-bisected-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 2b02d666bf63aee43e60e17fab4544e31730383c..e3ba1f2cf60cc0caa5dd7ed059dbe583b477e073 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1968,9 +1968,6 @@ static void put_cpu_partial(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, int drain)
        int pages;
        int pobjects;
 
-       if (!s->cpu_partial)
-               return;
-
        do {
                pages = 0;
                pobjects = 0;