Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm/slub: fixing backtrace of objects because of redzone adjustment

[Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>]

On 3/16/21 11:37 AM, Maninder Singh wrote:
> fixing commit 8e7f37f2aaa5 ("mm: Add mem_dump_obj() to print source
> of memory block")
> 
> with current code, Backtrace of allocated object is coming wrong:
> / # cat /proc/meminfo
> [   14.969843]  slab kmalloc-64 start c8ab0140 data offset 64 pointer offset 0 size 64 allocated at 0x6b6b6b6b
> [   14.970635]     0x6b6b6b6b
> [   14.970794]     0x6b6b6b6b
> [   14.970932]     0x6b6b6b6b
> [   14.971077]     0x6b6b6b6b
> [   14.971202]     0x6b6b6b6b
> [   14.971317]     0x6b6b6b6b
> [   14.971423]     0x6b6b6b6b
> [   14.971635]     0x6b6b6b6b
> [   14.971740]     0x6b6b6b6b
> [   14.971871]     0x6b6b6b6b
> [   14.972229]     0x6b6b6b6b
> [   14.972363]     0x6b6b6b6b
> [   14.972505]     0xa56b6b6b
> [   14.972631]     0xbbbbbbbb
> [   14.972734]     0xc8ab0400
> [   14.972891]     meminfo_proc_show+0x40/0x4fc
> 
> And reason is red zone was not adjusted from object address.
> after adding fixup for redzone, backtrace is coming correct:
> / # cat /proc/meminfo
> [   14.870782]  slab kmalloc-64 start c8ab0140 data offset 64 pointer offset 128 size 64 allocated at meminfo_proc_show+0x40/0x4f4
> [   14.871817]     meminfo_proc_show+0x40/0x4f4
> [   14.872035]     seq_read_iter+0x18c/0x4c4
> [   14.872229]     proc_reg_read_iter+0x84/0xac
> [   14.872433]     generic_file_splice_read+0xe8/0x17c
> [   14.872621]     splice_direct_to_actor+0xb8/0x290
> [   14.872747]     do_splice_direct+0xa0/0xe0
> [   14.872896]     do_sendfile+0x2d0/0x438
> [   14.873044]     sys_sendfile64+0x12c/0x140
> [   14.873229]     ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x58
> [   14.873372]     0xbe861de4
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vaneet Narang <v.narang@samsung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@samsung.com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

> ---
>  mm/slub.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 1912c4614248..9d13f0117ae6 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -4052,6 +4052,7 @@ void kmem_obj_info(struct kmem_obj_info *kpp, void *object, struct page *page)
>  	    !(s->flags & SLAB_STORE_USER))
>  		return;
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
> +	objp = fixup_red_left(s, objp);
>  	trackp = get_track(s, objp, TRACK_ALLOC);
>  	kpp->kp_ret = (void *)trackp->addr;
>  #ifdef CONFIG_STACKTRACE
>