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mm/slab.c: fix SLAB freelist randomization duplicate entries
authorJohn Sperbeck <jsperbeck@google.com>
Wed, 11 Jan 2017 00:58:24 +0000 (16:58 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 11 Jan 2017 02:31:55 +0000 (18:31 -0800)
commit764d0874851c373accae7f1a869ba1964f4ef7ec
tree9e6fc52e9ec0013941e765c9c6f5daeb6b3f56d8
parentb8be551d56f7ce0396f83a867c6abd3b341700fa
mm/slab.c: fix SLAB freelist randomization duplicate entries

This patch fixes a bug in the freelist randomization code.  When a high
random number is used, the freelist will contain duplicate entries.  It
will result in different allocations sharing the same chunk.

It will result in odd behaviours and crashes.  It should be uncommon but
it depends on the machines.  We saw it happening more often on some
machines (every few hours of running tests).

Fixes: d9d8144a231e ("mm: SLAB freelist randomization")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170103181908.143178-1-thgarnie@google.com
Signed-off-by: John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/slab.c