[GIT BISECT] BUG kmalloc-8192: Object already free from kmem_cache_destroy

[Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>]

2a38a002fbee06556489091c30b04746222167e4 is first bad commit
commit 2a38a002fbee06556489091c30b04746222167e4
Author: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Jul 22 17:03:57 2009 +0800

    slub: sysfs_slab_remove should free kmem_cache when debug is enabled
    
    kmem_cache_destroy use sysfs_slab_remove to release the kmem_cache,
    but when CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is enabled, sysfs_slab_remove just release
    related kobject, the whole kmem_cache is missed to release and cause
    a memory leak.
    
    Acked-by: Christoph Lameer <cl@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_SLUB=y
CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON=y
# CONFIG_SLUB_STATS is not set

I created a very simple kernel module which consisted only of:

static int __init kmem_cache_test_init_module(void)
{
	struct kmem_cache *test_cachep;

	test_cachep = kmem_cache_create("test_cachep", 32, 0, 0, NULL);
	if (test_cachep)
		kmem_cache_destroy(test_cachep);

        return 0;
}

Before this patch it works just fine.  After this patch I get a bug like
this:

[   59.921431] kmem_cache_test_init_module:
[   59.922415] =============================================================================
[   59.922418] BUG kmalloc-8192: Object already free
[   59.922419] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[   59.922420]
[   59.922453] INFO: Allocated in kmem_cache_create+0x70/0x320 age=1 cpu=3 pid=1781
[   59.922458] INFO: Freed in kmem_cache_release+0x23/0x40 age=0 cpu=3 pid=1781
[   59.922461] INFO: Slab 0xffffea0000373cc0 objects=3 used=1 fp=0xffff8800087fa048 flags=0x200000000040c3
[   59.922463] INFO: Object 0xffff8800087fa048 @offset=8264 fp=0xffff8800087fc090
[   59.922463]
[   59.922465] Bytes b4 0xffff8800087fa038:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a ........ZZZZZZZZ
[   59.922477]   Object 0xffff8800087fa048:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
[   59.922487]   Object 0xffff8800087fa058:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
[snip]
[   59.923261]   Object 0xffff8800087fb028:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
[   59.923261]   Object 0xffff8800087fb038:  6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
[   59.923261]  Redzone 0xffff8800087fc048:  bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb                         A>>A>>A>>A>>A>>A>>A>>A>>
[   59.923261]  Padding 0xffff8800087fc088:  5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a                         ZZZZZZZZ
[   59.923261] Pid: 1781, comm: insmod Not tainted 2.6.31-rc2 #33
[   59.923261] Call Trace:
[   59.923261]  [<ffffffff81142e1b>] print_trailer+0xfb/0x160
[   59.923261]  [<ffffffff81142ec9>] object_err+0x49/0x70
[   59.923261]  [<ffffffff81146166>] __slab_free+0x266/0x3c0
[   59.923261]  [<ffffffff811463ac>] kfree+0xec/0x220
[   59.923261]  [<ffffffff81146c4e>] ? kmem_cache_destroy+0x20e/0x230
[   59.923261]  [<ffffffffa02d1000>] ? kmem_cache_test_init_module+0x0/0x67 [cache_test]
[   59.923261]  [<ffffffffa02d1000>] ? kmem_cache_test_init_module+0x0/0x67 [cache_test]
[   59.923261]  [<ffffffff81146c4e>] kmem_cache_destroy+0x20e/0x230
[   59.923261]  [<ffffffffa02d1000>] ? kmem_cache_test_init_module+0x0/0x67 [cache_test]
[   59.923261]  [<ffffffffa02d104f>] kmem_cache_test_init_module+0x4f/0x67 [cache_test]
[   59.923261]  [<ffffffff8100a07b>] do_one_initcall+0x4b/0x1a0
[   59.923261]  [<ffffffff810b5f08>] sys_init_module+0x108/0x260
[   59.923261]  [<ffffffff81014282>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[   59.923261] FIX kmalloc-8192: Object at 0xffff8800087fa048 not freed

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