7989fdce69
The 'allocation failed, ...' warning messages can cause unlimited log
spam, contrary to the implementation's intent.
The warn_limit variable is accessed without synchronization. If more than
<warn_limit> threads enter the warning path at the same time, the variable
will get decremented past 0. Once it becomes negative, the non-zero check
will always return true leading to unlimited log spam.
Use atomic operation to access warn_limit and change condition to test for
non-negative (>= 0) - atomic_dec_if_positive will return -1 once
warn_limit becomes 0. Continue to print disable message alongside the
last warning.
While the change cited in Fixes is only adjacent, the warning limit
implementation was correct before it. Only non-atomic allocations were
considered for warnings, and those happened to hold pcpu_alloc_mutex while
accessing warn_limit.
[vdumitrescu@nvidia.com: prevent warn_limit from going negative, per Christoph Lameter]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ee87cc59-2717-4dbb-8052-1d2692c5aaaa@nvidia.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ab22061a-a62f-4429-945b-744e5cc4ba35@nvidia.com
Fixes:
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| Documentation | ||
| LICENSES | ||
| arch | ||
| block | ||
| certs | ||
| crypto | ||
| drivers | ||
| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| io_uring | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| rust | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .clang-format | ||
| .clippy.toml | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .editorconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| .pylintrc | ||
| .rustfmt.toml | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.