mm, slab: initialize object alignment on cache creation
authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Thu, 25 Sep 2014 23:05:20 +0000 (16:05 -0700)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:41:31 +0000 (15:41 +0200)
commit d4a5fca592b9ab52b90bb261a90af3c8f53be011 upstream.

Since commit 4590685546a3 ("mm/sl[aou]b: Common alignment code"), the
"ralign" automatic variable in __kmem_cache_create() may be used as
uninitialized.

The proper alignment defaults to BYTES_PER_WORD and can be overridden by
SLAB_RED_ZONE or the alignment specified by the caller.

This fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85031

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Andrei Elovikov <a.elovikov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
mm/slab.c

index eb4078c7d183adfc75b730403eb441920e9f026c..c180fbb8460b647734b1ecab7a3486c7dfe582fb 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -2222,7 +2222,8 @@ static int __init_refok setup_cpu_cache(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t gfp)
 int
 __kmem_cache_create (struct kmem_cache *cachep, unsigned long flags)
 {
-       size_t left_over, slab_size, ralign;
+       size_t left_over, slab_size;
+       size_t ralign = BYTES_PER_WORD;
        gfp_t gfp;
        int err;
        size_t size = cachep->size;
@@ -2255,14 +2256,6 @@ __kmem_cache_create (struct kmem_cache *cachep, unsigned long flags)
                size &= ~(BYTES_PER_WORD - 1);
        }
 
-       /*
-        * Redzoning and user store require word alignment or possibly larger.
-        * Note this will be overridden by architecture or caller mandated
-        * alignment if either is greater than BYTES_PER_WORD.
-        */
-       if (flags & SLAB_STORE_USER)
-               ralign = BYTES_PER_WORD;
-
        if (flags & SLAB_RED_ZONE) {
                ralign = REDZONE_ALIGN;
                /* If redzoning, ensure that the second redzone is suitably