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Waiman Long
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In a couple of places in the slub memory allocator, the code uses "s->offset" as a check to see if the free pointer is put right after the object. That check is no longer true with commit3202fa62fb("slub: relocate freelist pointer to middle of object"). As a result, echoing "1" into the validate sysfs file, e.g. of dentry, may cause a bunch of "Freepointer corrupt" error reports like the following to appear with the system in panic afterwards. ============================================================================= BUG dentry(666:pmcd.service) (Tainted: G B): Freepointer corrupt ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To fix it, use the check "s->offset == s->inuse" in the new helper function freeptr_outside_object() instead. Also add another helper function get_info_end() to return the end of info block (inuse + free pointer if not overlapping with object). Fixes:3202fa62fb("slub: relocate freelist pointer to middle of object") Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Vitaly Nikolenko <vnik@duasynt.com> Cc: Silvio Cesare <silvio.cesare@gmail.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200429135328.26976-1-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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