[PATCH -next] mm/slub: fix a slab missed to be freed problem

Feng Tang posted 1 patch 1 year, 6 months ago
mm/slub.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
[PATCH -next] mm/slub: fix a slab missed to be freed problem
Posted by Feng Tang 1 year, 6 months ago
When enable kasan and kfence's in-kernel kunit test with slub_debug on,
it caught a problem (in linux-next tree):

 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 kmem_cache_destroy test: Slab cache still has objects when called from test_exit+0x1a/0x30
 WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 240 at mm/slab_common.c:492 kmem_cache_destroy+0x16c/0x170
 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 3 PID: 240 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G    B            N 6.0.0-rc7-next-20220929 #52
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
 RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_destroy+0x16c/0x170
 Code: 41 5c 41 5d e9 a5 04 0b 00 c3 cc cc cc cc 48 8b 55 60 48 8b 4c 24 20 48 c7 c6 40 37 d2 82 48 c7 c7 e8 a0 33 83 e8 4e d7 14 01 <0f> 0b eb a7 41 56 41 89 d6 41 55 49 89 f5 41 54 49 89 fc 55 48 89
 RSP: 0000:ffff88800775fea0 EFLAGS: 00010282
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff83bdec48 RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 1ffff11000eebf9e RDI: ffffed1000eebfc6
 RBP: ffff88804362fa00 R08: ffffffff81182e58 R09: ffff88800775fbdf
 R10: ffffed1000eebf7b R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 000000008c800d00
 R13: ffff888005e78040 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff888005cdfad0
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88807ed00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000000360e001 CR4: 0000000000370ee0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  test_exit+0x1a/0x30
  kunit_try_run_case+0xad/0xc0
  kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x26/0x50
  kthread+0x17b/0x1b0

It was biscted to commit c7323a5ad078 ("mm/slub: restrict sysfs
validation to debug caches and make it safe")

The problem is inside free_debug_processing(), in one path, the slab
on partial list is missed to be freed when partial list is full.

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
---

Hi reviewers,

Sorry for the late reporting, but it's curious that this problem didn't
show up in my earlier test (which caught some other problems).

 mm/slub.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 5c3c31a154ba..4c037bd0b22b 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2880,28 +2880,34 @@ static noinline void free_debug_processing(
 out:
 	if (checks_ok) {
 		void *prior = slab->freelist;
+		bool slab_need_discard = false;
 
 		/* Perform the actual freeing while we still hold the locks */
 		slab->inuse -= cnt;
 		set_freepointer(s, tail, prior);
 		slab->freelist = head;
 
-		/* Do we need to remove the slab from full or partial list? */
+		/*
+		 * If the slab is empty, and node's partial list is full,
+		 * it should be discarded anyway no matter it's on full or
+		 * partial list.
+		 */
+		if (slab->inuse == 0 && n->nr_partial >= s->min_partial) {
+			slab_need_discard = true;
+			slab_free = slab;
+		}
+
 		if (!prior) {
+			/* was on full list */
 			remove_full(s, n, slab);
-		} else if (slab->inuse == 0 &&
-			   n->nr_partial >= s->min_partial) {
+			if (!slab_need_discard) {
+				add_partial(n, slab, DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL);
+				stat(s, FREE_ADD_PARTIAL);
+			}
+		} else if (slab_need_discard) {
 			remove_partial(n, slab);
 			stat(s, FREE_REMOVE_PARTIAL);
 		}
-
-		/* Do we need to discard the slab or add to partial list? */
-		if (slab->inuse == 0 && n->nr_partial >= s->min_partial) {
-			slab_free = slab;
-		} else if (!prior) {
-			add_partial(n, slab, DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL);
-			stat(s, FREE_ADD_PARTIAL);
-		}
 	}
 
 	if (slab_free) {
-- 
2.34.1
Re: [PATCH -next] mm/slub: fix a slab missed to be freed problem
Posted by Vlastimil Babka 1 year, 6 months ago
On 9/30/22 12:07, Feng Tang wrote:
> When enable kasan and kfence's in-kernel kunit test with slub_debug on,
> it caught a problem (in linux-next tree):
> 
>  ------------[ cut here ]------------
>  kmem_cache_destroy test: Slab cache still has objects when called from test_exit+0x1a/0x30
>  WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 240 at mm/slab_common.c:492 kmem_cache_destroy+0x16c/0x170

Assuming the warning was preceded by some kunit test failures?
I don't see how leaving more empty slabs on free list than needed would
cause this warning, the shutdown should just drop the empty slab.

>  Modules linked in:
>  CPU: 3 PID: 240 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G    B            N 6.0.0-rc7-next-20220929 #52
>  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
>  RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_destroy+0x16c/0x170
>  Code: 41 5c 41 5d e9 a5 04 0b 00 c3 cc cc cc cc 48 8b 55 60 48 8b 4c 24 20 48 c7 c6 40 37 d2 82 48 c7 c7 e8 a0 33 83 e8 4e d7 14 01 <0f> 0b eb a7 41 56 41 89 d6 41 55 49 89 f5 41 54 49 89 fc 55 48 89
>  RSP: 0000:ffff88800775fea0 EFLAGS: 00010282
>  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff83bdec48 RCX: 0000000000000000
>  RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 1ffff11000eebf9e RDI: ffffed1000eebfc6
>  RBP: ffff88804362fa00 R08: ffffffff81182e58 R09: ffff88800775fbdf
>  R10: ffffed1000eebf7b R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 000000008c800d00
>  R13: ffff888005e78040 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff888005cdfad0
>  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88807ed00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>  CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000000360e001 CR4: 0000000000370ee0
>  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
>  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
>  Call Trace:
>   <TASK>
>   test_exit+0x1a/0x30
>   kunit_try_run_case+0xad/0xc0
>   kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x26/0x50
>   kthread+0x17b/0x1b0
> 
> It was biscted to commit c7323a5ad078 ("mm/slub: restrict sysfs
> validation to debug caches and make it safe")
> 
> The problem is inside free_debug_processing(), in one path, the slab
> on partial list is missed to be freed when partial list is full.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
> ---
> 
> Hi reviewers,
> 
> Sorry for the late reporting, but it's curious that this problem didn't
> show up in my earlier test (which caught some other problems).

I think we can reuse the slab_free and don't need a new bool?

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 5c3c31a154ba..a63953f649ed 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2886,22 +2886,25 @@ static noinline void free_debug_processing(
                set_freepointer(s, tail, prior);
                slab->freelist = head;
 
-               /* Do we need to remove the slab from full or partial list? */
+               /*
+                * If the slab is empty, and node's partial list is full,
+                * it should be discarded anyway no matter it's on full or
+                * partial list.
+                */
+               if (slab->inuse == 0 && n->nr_partial >= s->min_partial)
+                       slab_free = slab;
+
                if (!prior) {
+                       /* was on full list */
                        remove_full(s, n, slab);
-               } else if (slab->inuse == 0 &&
-                          n->nr_partial >= s->min_partial) {
+                       if (!slab_free) {
+                               add_partial(n, slab, DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL);
+                               stat(s, FREE_ADD_PARTIAL);
+                       }
+               } else if (slab_free) {
                        remove_partial(n, slab);
                        stat(s, FREE_REMOVE_PARTIAL);
                }
-
-               /* Do we need to discard the slab or add to partial list? */
-               if (slab->inuse == 0 && n->nr_partial >= s->min_partial) {
-                       slab_free = slab;
-               } else if (!prior) {
-                       add_partial(n, slab, DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL);
-                       stat(s, FREE_ADD_PARTIAL);
-               }
        }
 
        if (slab_free) {


>  mm/slub.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 5c3c31a154ba..4c037bd0b22b 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -2880,28 +2880,34 @@ static noinline void free_debug_processing(
>  out:
>  	if (checks_ok) {
>  		void *prior = slab->freelist;
> +		bool slab_need_discard = false;
>  
>  		/* Perform the actual freeing while we still hold the locks */
>  		slab->inuse -= cnt;
>  		set_freepointer(s, tail, prior);
>  		slab->freelist = head;
>  
> -		/* Do we need to remove the slab from full or partial list? */
> +		/*
> +		 * If the slab is empty, and node's partial list is full,
> +		 * it should be discarded anyway no matter it's on full or
> +		 * partial list.
> +		 */
> +		if (slab->inuse == 0 && n->nr_partial >= s->min_partial) {
> +			slab_need_discard = true;
> +			slab_free = slab;
> +		}
> +
>  		if (!prior) {
> +			/* was on full list */
>  			remove_full(s, n, slab);
> -		} else if (slab->inuse == 0 &&
> -			   n->nr_partial >= s->min_partial) {
> +			if (!slab_need_discard) {
> +				add_partial(n, slab, DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL);
> +				stat(s, FREE_ADD_PARTIAL);
> +			}
> +		} else if (slab_need_discard) {
>  			remove_partial(n, slab);
>  			stat(s, FREE_REMOVE_PARTIAL);
>  		}
> -
> -		/* Do we need to discard the slab or add to partial list? */
> -		if (slab->inuse == 0 && n->nr_partial >= s->min_partial) {
> -			slab_free = slab;
> -		} else if (!prior) {
> -			add_partial(n, slab, DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL);
> -			stat(s, FREE_ADD_PARTIAL);
> -		}
>  	}
>  
>  	if (slab_free) {
Re: [PATCH -next] mm/slub: fix a slab missed to be freed problem
Posted by Feng Tang 1 year, 6 months ago
On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 07:25:54PM +0800, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> 
> On 9/30/22 12:07, Feng Tang wrote:
> > When enable kasan and kfence's in-kernel kunit test with slub_debug on,
> > it caught a problem (in linux-next tree):
> > 
> >  ------------[ cut here ]------------
> >  kmem_cache_destroy test: Slab cache still has objects when called from test_exit+0x1a/0x30
> >  WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 240 at mm/slab_common.c:492 kmem_cache_destroy+0x16c/0x170
> 
> Assuming the warning was preceded by some kunit test failures?
> I don't see how leaving more empty slabs on free list than needed would
> cause this warning, the shutdown should just drop the empty slab.

The previous code only call remove_partial() to dequeue the slab from
partial list, and miss to call discard_slab() for it.

From the debug dump, the n->nr_partils stays at 5, while n->nr_slabs
keeps increasing. And during shutdown, the free_partial() only free
the 5 slabs on partial list, and n->nr_slabs still has a big numbers
of orphan slabs

> >  Modules linked in:
> >  CPU: 3 PID: 240 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G    B            N 6.0.0-rc7-next-20220929 #52
> >  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
> >  RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_destroy+0x16c/0x170
> >  Code: 41 5c 41 5d e9 a5 04 0b 00 c3 cc cc cc cc 48 8b 55 60 48 8b 4c 24 20 48 c7 c6 40 37 d2 82 48 c7 c7 e8 a0 33 83 e8 4e d7 14 01 <0f> 0b eb a7 41 56 41 89 d6 41 55 49 89 f5 41 54 49 89 fc 55 48 89
> >  RSP: 0000:ffff88800775fea0 EFLAGS: 00010282
> >  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff83bdec48 RCX: 0000000000000000
> >  RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 1ffff11000eebf9e RDI: ffffed1000eebfc6
> >  RBP: ffff88804362fa00 R08: ffffffff81182e58 R09: ffff88800775fbdf
> >  R10: ffffed1000eebf7b R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 000000008c800d00
> >  R13: ffff888005e78040 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff888005cdfad0
> >  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88807ed00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> >  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> >  CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000000360e001 CR4: 0000000000370ee0
> >  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> >  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> >  Call Trace:
> >   <TASK>
> >   test_exit+0x1a/0x30
> >   kunit_try_run_case+0xad/0xc0
> >   kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x26/0x50
> >   kthread+0x17b/0x1b0
> > 
> > It was biscted to commit c7323a5ad078 ("mm/slub: restrict sysfs
> > validation to debug caches and make it safe")
> > 
> > The problem is inside free_debug_processing(), in one path, the slab
> > on partial list is missed to be freed when partial list is full.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > Hi reviewers,
> > 
> > Sorry for the late reporting, but it's curious that this problem didn't
> > show up in my earlier test (which caught some other problems).
> 
> I think we can reuse the slab_free and don't need a new bool?

Yes, much simpler!

Thanks,
Feng

> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 5c3c31a154ba..a63953f649ed 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -2886,22 +2886,25 @@ static noinline void free_debug_processing(
>                 set_freepointer(s, tail, prior);
>                 slab->freelist = head;
>  
> -               /* Do we need to remove the slab from full or partial list? */
> +               /*
> +                * If the slab is empty, and node's partial list is full,
> +                * it should be discarded anyway no matter it's on full or
> +                * partial list.
> +                */
> +               if (slab->inuse == 0 && n->nr_partial >= s->min_partial)
> +                       slab_free = slab;
> +
>                 if (!prior) {
> +                       /* was on full list */
>                         remove_full(s, n, slab);
> -               } else if (slab->inuse == 0 &&
> -                          n->nr_partial >= s->min_partial) {
> +                       if (!slab_free) {
> +                               add_partial(n, slab, DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL);
> +                               stat(s, FREE_ADD_PARTIAL);
> +                       }
> +               } else if (slab_free) {
>                         remove_partial(n, slab);
>                         stat(s, FREE_REMOVE_PARTIAL);
>                 }
> -
> -               /* Do we need to discard the slab or add to partial list? */
> -               if (slab->inuse == 0 && n->nr_partial >= s->min_partial) {
> -                       slab_free = slab;
> -               } else if (!prior) {
> -                       add_partial(n, slab, DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL);
> -                       stat(s, FREE_ADD_PARTIAL);
> -               }
>         }
>  
>         if (slab_free) {
Re: [PATCH -next] mm/slub: fix a slab missed to be freed problem
Posted by Vlastimil Babka 1 year, 6 months ago
On 9/30/22 13:51, Feng Tang wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 07:25:54PM +0800, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> 
>> On 9/30/22 12:07, Feng Tang wrote:
>> > When enable kasan and kfence's in-kernel kunit test with slub_debug on,
>> > it caught a problem (in linux-next tree):
>> > 
>> >  ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> >  kmem_cache_destroy test: Slab cache still has objects when called from test_exit+0x1a/0x30
>> >  WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 240 at mm/slab_common.c:492 kmem_cache_destroy+0x16c/0x170
>> 
>> Assuming the warning was preceded by some kunit test failures?
>> I don't see how leaving more empty slabs on free list than needed would
>> cause this warning, the shutdown should just drop the empty slab.
> 
> The previous code only call remove_partial() to dequeue the slab from
> partial list, and miss to call discard_slab() for it.
> 
> From the debug dump, the n->nr_partils stays at 5, while n->nr_slabs
> keeps increasing. And during shutdown, the free_partial() only free
> the 5 slabs on partial list, and n->nr_slabs still has a big numbers
> of orphan slabs

Thanks, finally I get the exact cause now. I've added the more detailed
explanation to commit log and the result is here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab.git/commit/?h=for-6.1/slub_validation_locking&id=b731e3575f7a45a46512708f9fdf953b40c46a53

>> >  Modules linked in:
>> >  CPU: 3 PID: 240 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G    B            N 6.0.0-rc7-next-20220929 #52
>> >  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
>> >  RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_destroy+0x16c/0x170
>> >  Code: 41 5c 41 5d e9 a5 04 0b 00 c3 cc cc cc cc 48 8b 55 60 48 8b 4c 24 20 48 c7 c6 40 37 d2 82 48 c7 c7 e8 a0 33 83 e8 4e d7 14 01 <0f> 0b eb a7 41 56 41 89 d6 41 55 49 89 f5 41 54 49 89 fc 55 48 89
>> >  RSP: 0000:ffff88800775fea0 EFLAGS: 00010282
>> >  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff83bdec48 RCX: 0000000000000000
>> >  RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 1ffff11000eebf9e RDI: ffffed1000eebfc6
>> >  RBP: ffff88804362fa00 R08: ffffffff81182e58 R09: ffff88800775fbdf
>> >  R10: ffffed1000eebf7b R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 000000008c800d00
>> >  R13: ffff888005e78040 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff888005cdfad0
>> >  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88807ed00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>> >  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>> >  CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000000360e001 CR4: 0000000000370ee0
>> >  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
>> >  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
>> >  Call Trace:
>> >   <TASK>
>> >   test_exit+0x1a/0x30
>> >   kunit_try_run_case+0xad/0xc0
>> >   kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x26/0x50
>> >   kthread+0x17b/0x1b0
>> > 
>> > It was biscted to commit c7323a5ad078 ("mm/slub: restrict sysfs
>> > validation to debug caches and make it safe")
>> > 
>> > The problem is inside free_debug_processing(), in one path, the slab
>> > on partial list is missed to be freed when partial list is full.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
>> > ---
>> > 
>> > Hi reviewers,
>> > 
>> > Sorry for the late reporting, but it's curious that this problem didn't
>> > show up in my earlier test (which caught some other problems).
>> 
>> I think we can reuse the slab_free and don't need a new bool?
> 
> Yes, much simpler!
> 
> Thanks,
> Feng
> 
>> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
>> index 5c3c31a154ba..a63953f649ed 100644
>> --- a/mm/slub.c
>> +++ b/mm/slub.c
>> @@ -2886,22 +2886,25 @@ static noinline void free_debug_processing(
>>                 set_freepointer(s, tail, prior);
>>                 slab->freelist = head;
>>  
>> -               /* Do we need to remove the slab from full or partial list? */
>> +               /*
>> +                * If the slab is empty, and node's partial list is full,
>> +                * it should be discarded anyway no matter it's on full or
>> +                * partial list.
>> +                */
>> +               if (slab->inuse == 0 && n->nr_partial >= s->min_partial)
>> +                       slab_free = slab;
>> +
>>                 if (!prior) {
>> +                       /* was on full list */
>>                         remove_full(s, n, slab);
>> -               } else if (slab->inuse == 0 &&
>> -                          n->nr_partial >= s->min_partial) {
>> +                       if (!slab_free) {
>> +                               add_partial(n, slab, DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL);
>> +                               stat(s, FREE_ADD_PARTIAL);
>> +                       }
>> +               } else if (slab_free) {
>>                         remove_partial(n, slab);
>>                         stat(s, FREE_REMOVE_PARTIAL);
>>                 }
>> -
>> -               /* Do we need to discard the slab or add to partial list? */
>> -               if (slab->inuse == 0 && n->nr_partial >= s->min_partial) {
>> -                       slab_free = slab;
>> -               } else if (!prior) {
>> -                       add_partial(n, slab, DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL);
>> -                       stat(s, FREE_ADD_PARTIAL);
>> -               }
>>         }
>>  
>>         if (slab_free) {
Re: [PATCH -next] mm/slub: fix a slab missed to be freed problem
Posted by Hyeonggon Yoo 1 year, 6 months ago
On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 04:43:23PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 9/30/22 13:51, Feng Tang wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 07:25:54PM +0800, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> >> 
> >> On 9/30/22 12:07, Feng Tang wrote:
> >> > When enable kasan and kfence's in-kernel kunit test with slub_debug on,
> >> > it caught a problem (in linux-next tree):
> >> > 
> >> >  ------------[ cut here ]------------
> >> >  kmem_cache_destroy test: Slab cache still has objects when called from test_exit+0x1a/0x30
> >> >  WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 240 at mm/slab_common.c:492 kmem_cache_destroy+0x16c/0x170
> >> 
> >> Assuming the warning was preceded by some kunit test failures?
> >> I don't see how leaving more empty slabs on free list than needed would
> >> cause this warning, the shutdown should just drop the empty slab.
> > 
> > The previous code only call remove_partial() to dequeue the slab from
> > partial list, and miss to call discard_slab() for it.
> > 
> > From the debug dump, the n->nr_partils stays at 5, while n->nr_slabs
> > keeps increasing. And during shutdown, the free_partial() only free
> > the 5 slabs on partial list, and n->nr_slabs still has a big numbers
> > of orphan slabs
> 
> Thanks, finally I get the exact cause now. I've added the more detailed
> explanation to commit log and the result is here:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab.git/commit/?h=for-6.1/slub_validation_locking&id=b731e3575f7a45a46512708f9fdf953b40c46a53
>

Very nice finding Feng, thanks!

Yeah, there are some cases where first and second check do not agree,
leading unfreed slabs.

the latest version looks good to me,
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>

Nit:
- discard_slab() is not what's actually called, but I get what you mean anyway...
- s/Reoganize/Reorganize/g

> >> >  Modules linked in:
> >> >  CPU: 3 PID: 240 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G    B            N 6.0.0-rc7-next-20220929 #52
> >> >  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
> >> >  RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_destroy+0x16c/0x170
> >> >  Code: 41 5c 41 5d e9 a5 04 0b 00 c3 cc cc cc cc 48 8b 55 60 48 8b 4c 24 20 48 c7 c6 40 37 d2 82 48 c7 c7 e8 a0 33 83 e8 4e d7 14 01 <0f> 0b eb a7 41 56 41 89 d6 41 55 49 89 f5 41 54 49 89 fc 55 48 89
> >> >  RSP: 0000:ffff88800775fea0 EFLAGS: 00010282
> >> >  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff83bdec48 RCX: 0000000000000000
> >> >  RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 1ffff11000eebf9e RDI: ffffed1000eebfc6
> >> >  RBP: ffff88804362fa00 R08: ffffffff81182e58 R09: ffff88800775fbdf
> >> >  R10: ffffed1000eebf7b R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 000000008c800d00
> >> >  R13: ffff888005e78040 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff888005cdfad0
> >> >  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88807ed00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> >> >  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> >> >  CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000000360e001 CR4: 0000000000370ee0
> >> >  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> >> >  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> >> >  Call Trace:
> >> >   <TASK>
> >> >   test_exit+0x1a/0x30
> >> >   kunit_try_run_case+0xad/0xc0
> >> >   kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x26/0x50
> >> >   kthread+0x17b/0x1b0
> >> > 
> >> > It was biscted to commit c7323a5ad078 ("mm/slub: restrict sysfs
> >> > validation to debug caches and make it safe")
> >> > 
> >> > The problem is inside free_debug_processing(), in one path, the slab
> >> > on partial list is missed to be freed when partial list is full.
> >> > 
> >> > Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
> >> > ---
> >> > 
> >> > Hi reviewers,
> >> > 
> >> > Sorry for the late reporting, but it's curious that this problem didn't
> >> > show up in my earlier test (which caught some other problems).
> >> 
> >> I think we can reuse the slab_free and don't need a new bool?
> > 
> > Yes, much simpler!
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Feng
> > 
> >> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> >> index 5c3c31a154ba..a63953f649ed 100644
> >> --- a/mm/slub.c
> >> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> >> @@ -2886,22 +2886,25 @@ static noinline void free_debug_processing(
> >>                 set_freepointer(s, tail, prior);
> >>                 slab->freelist = head;
> >>  
> >> -               /* Do we need to remove the slab from full or partial list? */
> >> +               /*
> >> +                * If the slab is empty, and node's partial list is full,
> >> +                * it should be discarded anyway no matter it's on full or
> >> +                * partial list.
> >> +                */
> >> +               if (slab->inuse == 0 && n->nr_partial >= s->min_partial)
> >> +                       slab_free = slab;
> >> +
> >>                 if (!prior) {
> >> +                       /* was on full list */
> >>                         remove_full(s, n, slab);
> >> -               } else if (slab->inuse == 0 &&
> >> -                          n->nr_partial >= s->min_partial) {
> >> +                       if (!slab_free) {
> >> +                               add_partial(n, slab, DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL);
> >> +                               stat(s, FREE_ADD_PARTIAL);
> >> +                       }
> >> +               } else if (slab_free) {
> >>                         remove_partial(n, slab);
> >>                         stat(s, FREE_REMOVE_PARTIAL);
> >>                 }
> >> -
> >> -               /* Do we need to discard the slab or add to partial list? */
> >> -               if (slab->inuse == 0 && n->nr_partial >= s->min_partial) {
> >> -                       slab_free = slab;
> >> -               } else if (!prior) {
> >> -                       add_partial(n, slab, DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL);
> >> -                       stat(s, FREE_ADD_PARTIAL);
> >> -               }
> >>         }
> >>  
> >>         if (slab_free) {
> 

-- 
Thanks,
Hyeonggon