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| author | John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@google.com> | 2017-01-10 16:58:24 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -0800 |
| commit | c4e490cf148e85ead0d1b1c2caaba833f1d5b29f (patch) | |
| tree | 9e6fc52e9ec0013941e765c9c6f5daeb6b3f56d8 /Documentation | |
| parent | b09ab054b69b07077bd3292f67e777861ac796e5 (diff) | |
mm/slab.c: fix SLAB freelist randomization duplicate entries
This patch fixes a bug in the freelist randomization code. When a high
random number is used, the freelist will contain duplicate entries. It
will result in different allocations sharing the same chunk.
It will result in odd behaviours and crashes. It should be uncommon but
it depends on the machines. We saw it happening more often on some
machines (every few hours of running tests).
Fixes: c7ce4f60ac19 ("mm: SLAB freelist randomization")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170103181908.143178-1-thgarnie@google.com
Signed-off-by: John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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