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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH v2] slub: Keep page and object in sync in slab_alloc_node()
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> In slab_alloc_node(), after the cpu_slab is assigned, if the task is
> preempted and moves to another CPU, there's nothing keeping the page and
> object in sync. The -rt kernel crashed because page was NULL and object
> was not, and the node_match() dereferences page. Even though the crash
> happened on -rt, there's nothing that's keeping this from happening on
> mainline.
>
> The easiest fix is to disable interrupts for the entire time from
> acquiring the current CPU cpu_slab and assigning the object and page.
> After that, it's fine to allow preemption.

Its easiest to just check for the NULL pointer as initally done. The call
to __slab_alloc can do what the fastpath does.

And the fastpath will verify that the c->page pointer was not changed.


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