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 <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 51258ef..ce2b9e5 100644 (file)
--- 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)