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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
	Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] slab: Remove special-casing of const 0 size allocations
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 09:06:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202211180906.3030FDDB4@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f008f8a2-8d5e-88ab-8d23-a2043ea5abe7@suse.cz>

On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 12:34:01PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 11/18/22 04:51, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Passing a constant-0 size allocation into kmalloc() or kmalloc_node()
> > does not need to be a fast-path operation, so the static return value
> > can be removed entirely. This is in preparation for making sure that
> > all paths through the inlines result in a full extern function call,
> 
> So with the kmalloc_trace() already solved, we could now say it's not "in
> preparation", but simply "makes sure", right? I can correct that while
> picking this patch.

Yeah, good point. I missed this when updating the commit logs. Thanks!

-- 
Kees Cook


  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-18 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-18  3:51 [PATCH v2 0/2] slab: Provide full coverage for __alloc_size attribute Kees Cook
2022-11-18  3:51 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] slab: Clean up SLOB vs kmalloc() definition Kees Cook
2022-11-18 11:29   ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2022-11-18  3:51 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] slab: Remove special-casing of const 0 size allocations Kees Cook
2022-11-18 11:34   ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-11-18 17:06     ` Kees Cook [this message]
2022-11-21  9:28       ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-11-18 11:36   ` Hyeonggon Yoo

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