slab: ensure cache_alloc_refill terminates
authorPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Sun, 6 May 2007 21:49:03 +0000 (14:49 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 7 May 2007 19:12:51 +0000 (12:12 -0700)
commit714b8171af9c930a59a0da8f6fe50518e70ab035
treeb63f21c4efd165637c938267d7e542df18d93c99
parent5f22df00a009e3f86301366c0ecddb63ebd22af9
slab: ensure cache_alloc_refill terminates

If slab->inuse is corrupted, cache_alloc_refill can enter an infinite
loop as detailed by Michael Richardson in the following post:
<http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/16/292>. This adds a BUG_ON to catch
those cases.

Cc: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/slab.c