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Message-ID: <CAGXu5jKLaY2vzeFNaEhZOXbMgDXp4nF4=BnGCFfHFRwL6LXNHA@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 09:59:27 -0700 From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, cocci@...teme.lip6.fr, Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Add kvmalloc_ab_c and kvzalloc_struct On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:32 AM, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 06:19:51PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: >> On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote: >> > On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 07:24:47AM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: >> > > Thanks. So it's OK to replace kmalloc and kzalloc, even though they >> > > didn't previously consider vmalloc and even though kmalloc doesn't zero? >> > >> > We'll also need to replace the corresponding places where those structs >> > are freed with kvfree(). Can coccinelle handle that too? >> >> Is the use of vmalloc a necessary part of the design? Or could there be a >> non vmalloc versions for call sites that are already ok with that? > > We can also add kmalloc_struct() along with kmalloc_ab_c that won't fall > back to vmalloc but just return NULL. Did this ever happen? I'd also like to see kmalloc_array_3d() or something that takes three size arguments. We have a lot of this pattern too: kmalloc(sizeof(foo) * A * B, gfp...) And we could turn that into: kmalloc_array_3d(sizeof(foo), A, B, gfp...) -Kees -- Kees Cook Pixel Security
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