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    SubjectRe: [PATCH SLUB 1/2] duplicate the cache name in saved_alias list
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    On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 18:54 +0800, Wanlong Gao wrote:
    > On 06/25/2012 05:53 PM, Li Zhong wrote:
    > > SLUB duplicates the cache name in kmem_cache_create(). However if the
    > > cache could be merged to others during early booting, the name pointer
    > > is saved in saved_alias list, and the string needs to be kept valid
    > > before slab_sysfs_init() is called.
    > >
    > > This patch tries to duplicate the cache name in saved_alias list, so
    > > that the cache name could be safely kfreed after calling
    > > kmem_cache_create(), if that name is kmalloced.
    > >
    > > Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    > > ---
    > > mm/slub.c | 6 ++++++
    > > 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
    > >
    > > diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
    > > index 8c691fa..3dc8ed5 100644
    > > --- a/mm/slub.c
    > > +++ b/mm/slub.c
    > > @@ -5373,6 +5373,11 @@ static int sysfs_slab_alias(struct kmem_cache *s,
    > > const char *name)
    > >
    > > al->s = s;
    > > al->name = name;
    > > + al->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
    >
    > dup assigned the al->name ?
    >

    Ah, yes, there should be a '-' before the line al->name = name;

    Thank you, I will update it.

    > Thanks,
    > Wanlong Gao
    >
    > > + if (!al->name) {
    > > + kfree(al);
    > > + return -ENOMEM;
    > > + }
    > > al->next = alias_list;
    > > alias_list = al;
    > > return 0;
    > > @@ -5409,6 +5414,7 @@ static int __init slab_sysfs_init(void)
    > > if (err)
    > > printk(KERN_ERR "SLUB: Unable to add boot slab alias"
    > > " %s to sysfs\n", s->name);
    > > + kfree(al->name);
    > > kfree(al);
    > > }
    > >
    > >
    >
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