mm/slab_common: use WARN() if cache still has objects on destroy
Calling kmem_cache_destroy() while the cache still has objects allocated is a kernel bug, and will usually result in the entire cache being leaked. While the message in kmem_cache_destroy() resembles a warning, it is currently not implemented using a real WARN(). This is problematic for infrastructure testing the kernel, all of which rely on the specific format of WARN()s to pick up on bugs. Some 13 years ago this used to be a simple WARN_ON() in slub, but commit d629d819 ("slub: improve kmem_cache_destroy() error message") changed it into an open-coded warning to avoid confusion with a bug in slub itself. Instead, turn the open-coded warning into a real WARN() with the message preserved, so that test systems can actually identify these issues, and we get all the other benefits of using a normal WARN(). The warning message is extended with "when called from <caller-ip>" to make it even clearer where the fault lies. For most configurations this is only a cosmetic change, however, note that WARN() here will now also respect panic_on_warn. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211102170733.648216-1-elver@google.comSigned-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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