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authorVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>2007-12-04 23:45:30 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-12-05 09:21:20 -0800
commit294a80a8ed004b383ab214837e1c05ca4098a717 (patch)
tree2cbf9d33ccafa5042dbde85641d4ca27dcf47dc5
parent5a622f2d0f86b316b07b55a4866ecb5518dd1cf7 (diff)
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>
-rw-r--r--mm/slub.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 9acb413858ac..b9f37cb0f2e6 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -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);