Re: oops in slab/leaks_show

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On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:01:35AM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
 > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 09:35:00AM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
 > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 11:18:30AM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
 > > > Joonsoo recently changed the handling of the freelist in SLAB. CCing him.
 > > > 
 > > > > I pretty much always use SLUB for my fuzzing boxes, but thought I'd give SLAB a try
 > > > > for a change.. It blew up when something tried to read /proc/slab_allocators
 > > > > (Just cat it, and you should see the oops below)
 > > 
 > > Hello, Dave.
 > > 
 > > Today, I did a test on v3.13 which contains all my changes on the handling of
 > > the freelist in SLAB and couldn't trigger oops by just 'cat /proc/slab_allocators'.
 > > 
 > > So I look at the code and find that there is race window if there is multiple users
 > > doing 'cat /proc/slab_allocators'. Did your test do that?
 > 
 > Opps, sorry. I am misunderstanding something. Maybe there is no race.
 > Anyway, How do you test it?

1. build kernel with CONFIG_SLAB=y.
2. boot kernel
3. cat /proc/slab_allocators

that's it.

	Dave

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