[ Upstream commit 745e10146c31b1c6ed3326286704ae251b17f663 ]

"cat /proc/slab_allocators" could hang forever on SMP machines with
kmemleak or object debugging enabled due to other CPUs running do_drain()
will keep making kmemleak_object or debug_objects_cache dirty and unable
to escape the first loop in leaks_show(),

do {
        set_store_user_clean(cachep);
        drain_cpu_caches(cachep);
        ...

} while (!is_store_user_clean(cachep));

For example,

do_drain
  slabs_destroy
    slab_destroy
      kmem_cache_free
        __cache_free
          ___cache_free
            kmemleak_free_recursive
              delete_object_full
                __delete_object
                  put_object
                    free_object_rcu
                      kmem_cache_free
                        cache_free_debugcheck --> dirty kmemleak_object

One approach is to check cachep->name and skip both kmemleak_object and
debug_objects_cache in leaks_show().  The other is to set store_user_clean
after drain_cpu_caches() which leaves a small window between
drain_cpu_caches() and set_store_user_clean() where per-CPU caches could
be dirty again lead to slightly wrong information has been stored but
could also speed up things significantly which sounds like a good
compromise.  For example,

 # cat /proc/slab_allocators
 0m42.778s # 1st approach
 0m0.737s  # 2nd approach

[[email protected]: tweak comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: d31676dfde25 ("mm/slab: alternative implementation for DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK")
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
---
 mm/slab.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 843ecea9e336..a04aeae42306 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -4320,8 +4320,12 @@ static int leaks_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
         * whole processing.
         */
        do {
-               set_store_user_clean(cachep);
                drain_cpu_caches(cachep);
+               /*
+                * drain_cpu_caches() could make kmemleak_object and
+                * debug_objects_cache dirty, so reset afterwards.
+                */
+               set_store_user_clean(cachep);
 
                x[1] = 0;
 
-- 
2.20.1



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