From 0882ff9190e3bc51e2d78c3aadd7c690eeaa91d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlastimil Babka Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 15:44:44 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm, slub: restore the original intention of prefetch_freepointer() In SLUB, prefetch_freepointer() is used when allocating an object from cache's freelist, to make sure the next object in the list is cache-hot, since it's probable it will be allocated soon. Commit 2482ddec670f ("mm: add SLUB free list pointer obfuscation") has unintentionally changed the prefetch in a way where the prefetch is turned to a real fetch, and only the next->next pointer is prefetched. In case there is not a stream of allocations that would benefit from prefetching, the extra real fetch might add a useless cache miss to the allocation. Restore the previous behavior. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180809085245.22448-1-vbabka@suse.cz Fixes: 2482ddec670f ("mm: add SLUB free list pointer obfuscation") Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: Daniel Micay Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/slub.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 51258eff4178..ce2b9e5cea77 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -271,8 +271,7 @@ static inline void *get_freepointer(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object) static void prefetch_freepointer(const struct kmem_cache *s, void *object) { - if (object) - prefetch(freelist_dereference(s, object + s->offset)); + prefetch(object + s->offset); } static inline void *get_freepointer_safe(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)