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Christophe Leroy
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Various notifications of type "BUG kmalloc-4096 () : Redzone overwritten" have been observed recently in various parts of the kernel. After some time, it has been made a relation with the use of BTRFS filesystem and with SLUB_DEBUG turned on. [ 22.809700] BUG kmalloc-4096 (Tainted: G W ): Redzone overwritten [ 22.810286] INFO: 0xbe1a5921-0xfbfc06cd. First byte 0x0 instead of 0xcc [ 22.810866] INFO: Allocated in __load_free_space_cache+0x588/0x780 [btrfs] age=22 cpu=0 pid=224 [ 22.811193] __slab_alloc.constprop.26+0x44/0x70 [ 22.811345] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xf0/0x2ec [ 22.811588] __load_free_space_cache+0x588/0x780 [btrfs] [ 22.811848] load_free_space_cache+0xf4/0x1b0 [btrfs] [ 22.812090] cache_block_group+0x1d0/0x3d0 [btrfs] [ 22.812321] find_free_extent+0x680/0x12a4 [btrfs] [ 22.812549] btrfs_reserve_extent+0xec/0x220 [btrfs] [ 22.812785] btrfs_alloc_tree_block+0x178/0x5f4 [btrfs] [ 22.813032] __btrfs_cow_block+0x150/0x5d4 [btrfs] [ 22.813262] btrfs_cow_block+0x194/0x298 [btrfs] [ 22.813484] commit_cowonly_roots+0x44/0x294 [btrfs] [ 22.813718] btrfs_commit_transaction+0x63c/0xc0c [btrfs] [ 22.813973] close_ctree+0xf8/0x2a4 [btrfs] [ 22.814107] generic_shutdown_super+0x80/0x110 [ 22.814250] kill_anon_super+0x18/0x30 [ 22.814437] btrfs_kill_super+0x18/0x90 [btrfs] [ 22.814590] INFO: Freed in proc_cgroup_show+0xc0/0x248 age=41 cpu=0 pid=83 [ 22.814841] proc_cgroup_show+0xc0/0x248 [ 22.814967] proc_single_show+0x54/0x98 [ 22.815086] seq_read+0x278/0x45c [ 22.815190] __vfs_read+0x28/0x17c [ 22.815289] vfs_read+0xa8/0x14c [ 22.815381] ksys_read+0x50/0x94 [ 22.815475] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38 Commit69d2480456("btrfs: use copy_page for copying pages instead of memcpy") changed the way bitmap blocks are copied. But allthough bitmaps have the size of a page, they were allocated with kzalloc(). Most of the time, kzalloc() allocates aligned blocks of memory, so copy_page() can be used. But when some debug options like SLAB_DEBUG are activated, kzalloc() may return unaligned pointer. On powerpc, memcpy(), copy_page() and other copying functions use 'dcbz' instruction which provides an entire zeroed cacheline to avoid memory read when the intention is to overwrite a full line. Functions like memcpy() are writen to care about partial cachelines at the start and end of the destination, but copy_page() assumes it gets pages. As pages are naturally cache aligned, copy_page() doesn't care about partial lines. This means that when copy_page() is called with a misaligned pointer, a few leading bytes are zeroed. To fix it, allocate bitmaps through kmem_cache instead of using kzalloc() The cache pool is created with PAGE_SIZE alignment constraint. Reported-by: Erhard F. <erhard_f@mailbox.org> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204371 Fixes:69d2480456("btrfs: use copy_page for copying pages instead of memcpy") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.19+ Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> [ rename to btrfs_free_space_bitmap ] Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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