From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
penberg@kernel.org, rientjes@google.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/25] slab: make kmem_cache_create() work with 32-bit sizes
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 14:48:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180405144833.41d16216c8c010294664e8ce@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1803061235260.29393@nuc-kabylake>
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 12:37:49 -0600 (CST) Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2018, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>
> > struct kmem_cache::size and ::align were always 32-bit.
> >
> > Out of curiosity I created 4GB kmem_cache, it oopsed with division by 0.
> > kmem_cache_create(1UL<<32+1) created 1-byte cache as expected.
>
> Could you add a check to avoid that in the future?
>
> > size_t doesn't work and never did.
>
> Its not so simple. Please verify that the edge cases of all object size /
> alignment etc calculations are doable with 32 bit entities first.
>
> And size_t makes sense as a parameter.
Alexey, please don't let this stuff dangle on.
I think I'll merge this as-is but some fixups might be needed as a
result of Christoph's suggestion?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-05 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-05 20:07 [PATCH 01/25] slab: fixup calculate_alignment() argument type Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 02/25] slab: make kmalloc_index() return "unsigned int" Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:24 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 03/25] slab: make kmalloc_size() " Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:24 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 04/25] slab: make create_kmalloc_cache() work with 32-bit sizes Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:32 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 05/25] slab: make create_boot_cache() " Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:34 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-06 19:14 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 06/25] slab: make kmem_cache_create() " Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:37 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-04-05 21:48 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2018-04-06 8:40 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2018-04-07 15:13 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 07/25] slab: make size_index[] array u8 Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:38 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 08/25] slab: make size_index_elem() unsigned int Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:39 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 09/25] slub: make ->remote_node_defrag_ratio " Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:41 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 10/25] slub: make ->max_attr_size " Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:42 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 11/25] slub: make ->red_left_pad " Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:42 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 12/25] slub: make ->reserved " Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:43 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-09 15:51 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-09 22:42 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 13/25] slub: make ->align " Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:43 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 14/25] slub: make ->inuse " Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:44 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 15/25] slub: make ->cpu_partial " Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:44 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 16/25] slub: make ->offset " Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:45 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 17/25] slub: make ->object_size " Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:45 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 18/25] slub: make ->size " Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:46 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 19/25] slab: make kmem_cache_flags accept 32-bit object size Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:47 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 20/25] kasan: make kasan_cache_create() work with 32-bit slab cache sizes Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 21/25] slab: make usercopy region 32-bit Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 22/25] slub: make slab_index() return unsigned int Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:48 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 23/25] slub: make struct kmem_cache_order_objects::x " Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:51 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-04-05 21:51 ` Andrew Morton
2018-04-06 18:02 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2018-04-07 15:18 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 24/25] slub: make size_from_object() return " Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:52 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-05 20:07 ` [PATCH 25/25] slab: use 32-bit arithmetic in freelist_randomize() Alexey Dobriyan
2018-03-06 18:52 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-03-06 18:21 ` [PATCH 01/25] slab: fixup calculate_alignment() argument type Christopher Lameter
2018-04-10 20:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-10 20:47 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2018-04-10 21:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
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