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    slab: do not panic on invalid gfp_mask · 72baeef0
    Michal Hocko authored
    Both SLAB and SLUB BUG() when a caller provides an invalid gfp_mask.
    This is a rather harsh way to announce a non-critical issue.  Allocator
    is free to ignore invalid flags.  Let's simply replace BUG() by
    dump_stack to tell the offender and fixup the mask to move on with the
    allocation request.
    
    This is an example for kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_HIGHMEM) from a test
    module:
    
      Unexpected gfp: 0x2 (__GFP_HIGHMEM). Fixing up to gfp: 0x24000c0 (GFP_KERNEL). Fix your code!
      CPU: 0 PID: 2916 Comm: insmod Tainted: G           O    4.6.0-slabgfp2-00002-g4cdfc2ef4892-dirty #936
      Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Debian-1.8.2-1 04/01/2014
      Call Trace:
        dump_stack+0x67/0x90
        cache_alloc_refill+0x201/0x617
        kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xa7/0x24a
        ? 0xffffffffa0005000
        mymodule_init+0x20/0x1000 [test_slab]
        do_one_initcall+0xe7/0x16c
        ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x61/0x69
        ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x197/0x24a
        do_init_module+0x5f/0x1d9
        load_module+0x1a3d/0x1f21
        ? retint_kernel+0x2d/0x2d
        SyS_init_module+0xe8/0x10e
        ? SyS_init_module+0xe8/0x10e
        do_syscall_64+0x68/0x13f
        entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465548200-11384-2-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
    Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.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>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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