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Commit 71a218ca authored by Rustam Kovhaev's avatar Rustam Kovhaev Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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xfs: use kmem_cache_free() for kmem_cache objects

[ Upstream commit c30a0cbd ]

For kmalloc() allocations SLOB prepends the blocks with a 4-byte header,
and it puts the size of the allocated blocks in that header.
Blocks allocated with kmem_cache_alloc() allocations do not have that
header.

SLOB explodes when you allocate memory with kmem_cache_alloc() and then
try to free it with kfree() instead of kmem_cache_free().
SLOB will assume that there is a header when there is none, read some
garbage to size variable and corrupt the adjacent objects, which
eventually leads to hang or panic.

Let's make XFS work with SLOB by using proper free function.

Fixes: 9749fee8

 ("xfs: enable the xfs_defer mechanism to process extents to free")
Signed-off-by: default avatarRustam Kovhaev <rkovhaev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLeah Rumancik <leah.rumancik@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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