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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
	Rafael Aquini <raquini@redhat.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/slab_common: fix slab_caches list corruption after kmem_cache_destroy()
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2023 02:16:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZPvHUK95S6Dgl86v@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230908230649.802560-1-aquini@redhat.com>

On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 07:06:49PM -0400, Rafael Aquini wrote:
> This patch fixes this issue by properly checking shutdown_cache()'s
> return value before taking the kmem_cache_release() branch.

Is this the right way to fix this problem?  If the module destroys the
slab cache, it's not going to be possible to free any of the objects
still allocated from the cache.  I feel that we should treat this as
implicitly freeing all the objects that were allocated from the cache
rather than saying the cache is still busy.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-09-09  1:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-08 23:06 Rafael Aquini
2023-09-08 23:21 ` Waiman Long
2023-09-09  1:16 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2023-09-09  1:51   ` Rafael Aquini
2023-09-11 15:06 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-09-11 16:47   ` Rafael Aquini

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