mm: slub: fix conversion of freelist_corrupted()
authorEugeniu Rosca <erosca@de.adit-jv.com>
Fri, 4 Sep 2020 23:35:30 +0000 (16:35 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 5 Sep 2020 19:14:29 +0000 (12:14 -0700)
commitdc07a728d49cf025f5da2c31add438d839d076c0
tree6036a7914a1e08e54fa2a19a2adf7687ef66bc3a
parente3336cab2579012b1e72b5265adf98e2d6e244ad
mm: slub: fix conversion of freelist_corrupted()

Commit 52f23478081ae0 ("mm/slub.c: fix corrupted freechain in
deactivate_slab()") suffered an update when picked up from LKML [1].

Specifically, relocating 'freelist = NULL' into 'freelist_corrupted()'
created a no-op statement.  Fix it by sticking to the behavior intended
in the original patch [1].  In addition, make freelist_corrupted()
immune to passing NULL instead of &freelist.

The issue has been spotted via static analysis and code review.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200331031450.12182-1-dongli.zhang@oracle.com/

Fixes: 52f23478081ae0 ("mm/slub.c: fix corrupted freechain in deactivate_slab()")
Signed-off-by: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@de.adit-jv.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>
Cc: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.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>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200824130643.10291-1-erosca@de.adit-jv.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/slub.c