Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755842Ab2FYKyH (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:54:07 -0400 Received: from cn.fujitsu.com ([222.73.24.84]:46634 "EHLO song.cn.fujitsu.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755638Ab2FYKyF (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:54:05 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.77,471,1336320000"; d="scan'208";a="5258536" Message-ID: <4FE84352.8090303@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:54:10 +0800 From: Wanlong Gao Reply-To: gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com Organization: Fujitsu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Li Zhong CC: LKML , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , Matt Mackall , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , linux-mm , PowerPC email list Subject: Re: [PATCH SLUB 1/2] duplicate the cache name in saved_alias list References: <1340617984.13778.37.camel@ThinkPad-T420> In-Reply-To: <1340617984.13778.37.camel@ThinkPad-T420> X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on mailserver/fnst(Release 8.5.3|September 15, 2011) at 2012/06/25 18:54:17, Serialize by Router on mailserver/fnst(Release 8.5.3|September 15, 2011) at 2012/06/25 18:54:18, Serialize complete at 2012/06/25 18:54:18 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1554 Lines: 55 On 06/25/2012 05:53 PM, Li Zhong wrote: > SLUB duplicates the cache name in kmem_cache_create(). However if the > cache could be merged to others during early booting, the name pointer > is saved in saved_alias list, and the string needs to be kept valid > before slab_sysfs_init() is called. > > This patch tries to duplicate the cache name in saved_alias list, so > that the cache name could be safely kfreed after calling > kmem_cache_create(), if that name is kmalloced. > > Signed-off-by: Li Zhong > --- > mm/slub.c | 6 ++++++ > 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c > index 8c691fa..3dc8ed5 100644 > --- a/mm/slub.c > +++ b/mm/slub.c > @@ -5373,6 +5373,11 @@ static int sysfs_slab_alias(struct kmem_cache *s, > const char *name) > > al->s = s; > al->name = name; > + al->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL); dup assigned the al->name ? Thanks, Wanlong Gao > + if (!al->name) { > + kfree(al); > + return -ENOMEM; > + } > al->next = alias_list; > alias_list = al; > return 0; > @@ -5409,6 +5414,7 @@ static int __init slab_sysfs_init(void) > if (err) > printk(KERN_ERR "SLUB: Unable to add boot slab alias" > " %s to sysfs\n", s->name); > + kfree(al->name); > kfree(al); > } > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/