mm/slub.c: fix wrong address during slab padding restoration
Start address calculated for slab padding restoration was wrong. Wrong
address would point to some section before padding and could cause
corruption
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516604578-4577-1-git-send-email-balasubramani_vivekanandan@mentor.com
Signed-off-by: Balasubramani Vivekanandan <balasubramani_vivekanandan@mentor.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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index cfd56e5..733ba32 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -838,6 +838,7 @@ static int slab_pad_check(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page)
u8 *start;
u8 *fault;
u8 *end;
+ u8 *pad;
int length;
int remainder;
@@ -851,8 +852,9 @@ static int slab_pad_check(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page)
if (!remainder)
return 1;
+ pad = end - remainder;
metadata_access_enable();
- fault = memchr_inv(end - remainder, POISON_INUSE, remainder);
+ fault = memchr_inv(pad, POISON_INUSE, remainder);
metadata_access_disable();
if (!fault)
return 1;
@@ -860,9 +862,9 @@ static int slab_pad_check(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page)
end--;
slab_err(s, page, "Padding overwritten. 0x%p-0x%p", fault, end - 1);
- print_section(KERN_ERR, "Padding ", end - remainder, remainder);
+ print_section(KERN_ERR, "Padding ", pad, remainder);
- restore_bytes(s, "slab padding", POISON_INUSE, end - remainder, end);
+ restore_bytes(s, "slab padding", POISON_INUSE, fault, end);
return 0;
}
