On Wed, 2 Jan 2019, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> Am I missing something or __alloc_alien_cache misses check for
> kmalloc_node result?
>
> static struct alien_cache *__alloc_alien_cache(int node, int entries,
> int batch, gfp_t gfp)
> {
> size_t me
On Tue, 16 Jan 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 12:17:01PM -0600, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> > Draft patch of how the data structs could change. kmem_cache_attr is read
> > only.
>
> Looks good. Although I would add Kees' user feature:
Sure I t
Draft patch of how the data structs could change. kmem_cache_attr is read
only.
Index: linux/include/linux/slab.h
===
--- linux.orig/include/linux/slab.h
+++ linux/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -135,9 +135,17 @@ struct mem_cgroup;
void __i
On Tue, 16 Jan 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Sure this data is never changed. It can be const.
>
> It's changed at initialisation. Look:
>
> kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size, size_t align,
> slab_flags_t flags, void (*ctor)(void *))
> s = create_cache(ca
On Tue, 16 Jan 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I think that's a good thing! /proc/slabinfo really starts to get grotty
> above 16 bytes. I'd like to chop off "_cache" from the name of every
> single slab! If ext4_allocation_context has to become ext4_alloc_ctx,
> I don't think we're going to lose
On Sun, 14 Jan 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Hmmm... At some point we should switch kmem_cache_create to pass a struct
> > containing all the parameters. Otherwise the API will blow up with
> > additional functions.
>
> Obviously I agree with you. I'm inclined to not let that delay Kees'
> patc
On Fri, 12 Jan 2018, David Laight wrote:
> > Hmmm... At some point we should switch kmem_cache_create to pass a struct
> > containing all the parameters. Otherwise the API will blow up with
> > additional functions.
>
> Or add an extra function to 'configure' the kmem_cache with the
> extra parame
On Wed, 10 Jan 2018, Kees Cook wrote:
> diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
> index ad657ffa44e5..7d29e69ac310 100644
> --- a/mm/slab.h
> +++ b/mm/slab.h
> @@ -526,4 +526,10 @@ static inline int cache_random_seq_create(struct
> kmem_cache *cachep,
> static inline void cache_random_seq_destroy(str
On Tue, 9 Jan 2018, Kees Cook wrote:
> +struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create_usercopy(const char *name,
> + size_t size, size_t align, slab_flags_t flags,
> + size_t useroffset, size_t usersize,
> + void (*ctor)(void *));
Hmmm... At some
On Tue, 9 Jan 2018, Kees Cook wrote:
> @@ -3823,11 +3825,9 @@ int __check_heap_object(const void *ptr, unsigned long
> n, struct page *page,
Could we do the check in mm_slab_common.c for all allocators and just have
a small function in each allocators that give you the metadata needed for
the ob
On Tue, 9 Jan 2018, Kees Cook wrote:
> -static void report_usercopy(unsigned long len, bool to_user, const char
> *type)
> +int report_usercopy(const char *name, const char *detail, bool to_user,
> + unsigned long offset, unsigned long len)
> {
> - pr_emerg("kernel memory %s
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Kees Cook wrote:
> > So what is the point of this patch?
>
> The DMA kmalloc caches are not whitelisted:
The DMA kmalloc caches are pretty obsolete and mostly there for obscure
drivers.
??
> >> kmalloc_dma_caches[i] = create_kmalloc_cache(n,
> >> -
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Kees Cook wrote:
> --- a/mm/slab.c
> +++ b/mm/slab.c
> @@ -1291,7 +1291,8 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)
>*/
> kmalloc_caches[INDEX_NODE] = create_kmalloc_cache(
> kmalloc_info[INDEX_NODE].name,
> -
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Kees Cook wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/stddef.h b/include/linux/stddef.h
> index 9c61c7cda936..f00355086fb2 100644
> --- a/include/linux/stddef.h
> +++ b/include/linux/stddef.h
> @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ enum {
> #define offsetof(TYPE, MEMBER) ((size_t)&((TYPE *)0)->MEM
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Kees Cook wrote:
> diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
> index 87b6e5e0cdaf..df268999cf02 100644
> --- a/mm/slab.c
> +++ b/mm/slab.c
> @@ -4408,7 +4408,9 @@ module_init(slab_proc_init);
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY
> /*
> - * Rejects objects that are incorrectly sized.
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