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dm bufio: fully initialize shrinker 

commit d8c712ea47 upstream.

1d3d4437ea ("vmscan: per-node deferred work") added a flags field to
struct shrinker assuming that all shrinkers were zero filled.  The dm
bufio shrinker is not zero filled, which leaves arbitrary kmalloc() data
in flags.  So far the only defined flags bit is SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE.
But there are proposed patches which add other bits to shrinker.flags
(e.g. memcg awareness).

Rather than simply initializing the shrinker, this patch uses kzalloc()
when allocating the dm_bufio_client to ensure that the embedded shrinker
and any other similar structures are zeroed.

This fixes theoretical over aggressive shrinking of dm bufio objects.
If the uninitialized dm_bufio_client.shrinker.flags contains
SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE then shrink_slab() would call the dm shrinker for
each numa node rather than just once.  This has been broken since 3.12.

Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Greg Thelen 2014-07-31 09:07:19 -07:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent e50aa1ea6d
commit 549e73fd84
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
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drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
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@ -1541,7 +1541,7 @@ struct dm_bufio_client *dm_bufio_client_create(struct block_device *bdev, unsign
BUG_ON(block_size < 1 << SECTOR_SHIFT ||
(block_size & (block_size - 1)));
c = kmalloc(sizeof(*c), GFP_KERNEL);
c = kzalloc(sizeof(*c), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!c) {
r = -ENOMEM;
goto bad_client;