Re: kmemcheck caught read from freed memory (cfq_free_io_context)

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 03:55 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 09:28:46AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Apr 02 2008, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > > Good catch, I wonder why it didn't complain in my testing. I've added a
> > > > > patch to fix that, please see it here:
> > > > 
> > > > You probably don't have kmemcheck in your kernel ;-)
> > > 
> > > Ehm no, you are right :)
> > 
> > ... and you can get kmemcheck by testing on x86.git/latest:
> > 
> >   http://people.redhat.com/mingo/x86.git/README
> > 
> > ;-)
> 
> I will check this when I get back to some bandwidth -- but in the meantime,
> does kmemcheck special-case SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU?  It is legal to access
> newly-freed items in that case, as long as you did rcu_read_lock()
> before gaining a reference to them and don't hold the reference past
> the matching rcu_read_unlock().

I don't think it does.

It would have to register an call_rcu callback itself in order to mark
it freed - and handle the race with the object being handed out again.

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