linux-mm.kvack.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: glider@google.com, elver@google.com, dvyukov@google.com,
	jannh@google.com, sjpark@amazon.de, muchun.song@linux.dev,
	kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: kfence: fix handling discontiguous page
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 15:18:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230323151850.e2785b1cff37fba078f26f2b@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230323025003.94447-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com>

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:50:03 +0800 Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> wrote:

> The struct pages could be discontiguous when the kfence pool is allocated
> via alloc_contig_pages() with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM and !CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP.
> So, the iteration should use nth_page().

What are the user-visible runtime effects of this flaw?

Thanks.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-23 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-23  2:50 Muchun Song
2023-03-23  8:28 ` Marco Elver
2023-03-23 22:18 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2023-03-24  1:59   ` Muchun Song
2023-03-24  3:43 ` Kefeng Wang

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20230323151850.e2785b1cff37fba078f26f2b@linux-foundation.org \
    --to=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=dvyukov@google.com \
    --cc=elver@google.com \
    --cc=glider@google.com \
    --cc=jannh@google.com \
    --cc=kasan-dev@googlegroups.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
    --cc=muchun.song@linux.dev \
    --cc=sjpark@amazon.de \
    --cc=songmuchun@bytedance.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox