SLUB: Fix behavior if the text output of list_locations overflows PAGE_SIZE If slabs are allocated or freed from a large set of call sites (typical for the kmalloc area) then we may create more output than fits into a single PAGE and sysfs only gives us one page. The output should be truncated. This patch fixes the checks to do the truncation properly. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Index: linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2/mm/slub.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2.orig/mm/slub.c 2007-06-18 14:57:41.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2/mm/slub.c 2007-06-18 14:57:45.000000000 -0700 @@ -3112,13 +3112,15 @@ static int list_locations(struct kmem_ca n += sprintf(buf + n, " pid=%ld", l->min_pid); - if (num_online_cpus() > 1 && !cpus_empty(l->cpus)) { + if (num_online_cpus() > 1 && !cpus_empty(l->cpus) && + n < PAGE_SIZE - 60) { n += sprintf(buf + n, " cpus="); n += cpulist_scnprintf(buf + n, PAGE_SIZE - n - 50, l->cpus); } - if (num_online_nodes() > 1 && !nodes_empty(l->nodes)) { + if (num_online_nodes() > 1 && !nodes_empty(l->nodes) && + n < PAGE_SIZE - 60) { n += sprintf(buf + n, " nodes="); n += nodelist_scnprintf(buf + n, PAGE_SIZE - n - 50, l->nodes);