Commit 294a80a8 authored Dec 04, 2007 by Vegard Nossum Committed by Linus Torvalds Dec 05, 2007

SLUB's ksize() fails for size > 2048

I can't pass memory allocated by kmalloc() to ksize() if it is allocated by
SLUB allocator and size is larger than (I guess) PAGE_SIZE / 2.

The error of ksize() seems to be that it does not check if the allocation
was made by SLUB or the page allocator.

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 5a622f2d

mm/slub.c

+5 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2558,8 +2558,12 @@ size_t ksize(const void *object)
		if (unlikely(object == ZERO_SIZE_PTR))
		return 0;

		page = get_object_page(object);
		page = virt_to_head_page(object);
		BUG_ON(!page);

		if (unlikely(!PageSlab(page)))
		return PAGE_SIZE << compound_order(page);

		s = page->slab;
		BUG_ON(!s);