Re: Re[2]: PROBLEM: page allocation or what in 2.6.8.1

From: Andrew Morton (akpm_at_osdl.org)
Date: 08/31/04

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    Date:	Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:02:32 -0700
    To: Harry Edmon <harry@atmos.washington.edu>
    
    

    Harry Edmon <harry@atmos.washington.edu> wrote:
    >
    > We believe the hardware is okay. We have run numerous memtests, all okay. This
    > is a Tyan S2721-533 with dual 3.06 Xeons.
    >
    > We tried taking out CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and still we get crashes, especially
    > in nfsd. We have now gone to the 2.6.8.1-mm4 kernel and got the following
    > crash:
    >
    > kfree_debugcheck: bad ptr f8c189fch.

    ip_map_put() is doing kfree(garbage). That should be fixed by the below,
    which was merged subsequent to 2.6.8.1.

    diff -puN net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c~use-fixed-size-buffer-instead-of-kmalloc-for-m_class-in-ip_map net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c
    --- 25/net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c~use-fixed-size-buffer-instead-of-kmalloc-for-m_class-in-ip_map 2004-08-26 23:30:29.000000000 -0700
    +++ 25-akpm/net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c 2004-08-26 23:30:29.061446776 -0700
    @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ static void svcauth_unix_domain_release(
     
     struct ip_map {
             struct cache_head h;
    - char *m_class; /* e.g. "nfsd" */
    + char m_class[8]; /* e.g. "nfsd" */
             struct in_addr m_addr;
             struct unix_domain *m_client;
             int m_add_change;
    @@ -104,7 +104,6 @@ void ip_map_put(struct cache_head *item,
                     if (test_bit(CACHE_VALID, &item->flags) &&
                         !test_bit(CACHE_NEGATIVE, &item->flags))
                             auth_domain_put(&im->m_client->h);
    - kfree(im->m_class);
                     kfree(im);
             }
     }
    @@ -121,8 +120,7 @@ static inline int ip_map_match(struct ip
     }
     static inline void ip_map_init(struct ip_map *new, struct ip_map *item)
     {
    - new->m_class = item->m_class;
    - item->m_class = NULL;
    + strcpy(new->m_class, item->m_class);
             new->m_addr.s_addr = item->m_addr.s_addr;
     }
     static inline void ip_map_update(struct ip_map *new, struct ip_map *item)
    @@ -171,6 +169,8 @@ static int ip_map_parse(struct cache_det
             /* class */
             len = qword_get(&mesg, class, 50);
             if (len <= 0) return -EINVAL;
    + if (len >= sizeof(ipm.m_class))
    + return -EINVAL;
     
             /* ip address */
             len = qword_get(&mesg, buf, 50);
    @@ -194,9 +194,7 @@ static int ip_map_parse(struct cache_det
             } else
                     dom = NULL;
     
    - ipm.m_class = strdup(class);
    - if (ipm.m_class == NULL)
    - return -ENOMEM;
    + strcpy(ipm.m_class, class);
             ipm.m_addr.s_addr =
                     htonl((((((b1<<8)|b2)<<8)|b3)<<8)|b4);
             ipm.h.flags = 0;
    @@ -212,7 +210,6 @@ static int ip_map_parse(struct cache_det
                     ip_map_put(&ipmp->h, &ip_map_cache);
             if (dom)
                     auth_domain_put(dom);
    - if (ipm.m_class) kfree(ipm.m_class);
             if (!ipmp)
                     return -ENOMEM;
             cache_flush();
    @@ -272,9 +269,7 @@ int auth_unix_add_addr(struct in_addr ad
             if (dom->flavour != RPC_AUTH_UNIX)
                     return -EINVAL;
             udom = container_of(dom, struct unix_domain, h);
    - ip.m_class = strdup("nfsd");
    - if (!ip.m_class)
    - return -ENOMEM;
    + strcpy(ip.m_class, "nfsd");
             ip.m_addr = addr;
             ip.m_client = udom;
             ip.m_add_change = udom->addr_changes+1;
    @@ -282,7 +277,7 @@ int auth_unix_add_addr(struct in_addr ad
             ip.h.expiry_time = NEVER;
             
             ipmp = ip_map_lookup(&ip, 1);
    - if (ip.m_class) kfree(ip.m_class);
    +
             if (ipmp) {
                     ip_map_put(&ipmp->h, &ip_map_cache);
                     return 0;
    @@ -306,7 +301,7 @@ struct auth_domain *auth_unix_lookup(str
             struct ip_map key, *ipm;
             struct auth_domain *rv;
     
    - key.m_class = "nfsd";
    + strcpy(key.m_class, "nfsd");
             key.m_addr = addr;
     
             ipm = ip_map_lookup(&key, 0);
    @@ -368,7 +363,7 @@ svcauth_null_accept(struct svc_rqst *rqs
             svc_putu32(resv, RPC_AUTH_NULL);
             svc_putu32(resv, 0);
     
    - key.m_class = rqstp->rq_server->sv_program->pg_class;
    + strcpy(key.m_class, rqstp->rq_server->sv_program->pg_class);
             key.m_addr = rqstp->rq_addr.sin_addr;
     
             ipm = ip_map_lookup(&key, 0);
    @@ -464,7 +459,7 @@ svcauth_unix_accept(struct svc_rqst *rqs
             }
     
     
    - key.m_class = rqstp->rq_server->sv_program->pg_class;
    + strcpy(key.m_class, rqstp->rq_server->sv_program->pg_class);
             key.m_addr = rqstp->rq_addr.sin_addr;
     
     
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