From: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, cl@linux.com, penberg@kernel.org,
rientjes@google.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, vbabka@suse.cz,
roman.gushchin@linux.dev, 42.hyeyoo@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mm: krealloc: consider spare memory for __GFP_ZERO
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 21:42:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240730194214.31483-1-dakr@kernel.org> (raw)
As long as krealloc() is called with __GFP_ZERO consistently, starting
with the initial memory allocation, __GFP_ZERO should be fully honored.
However, if for an existing allocation krealloc() is called with a
decreased size, it is not ensured that the spare portion the allocation
is zeroed. Thus, if krealloc() is subsequently called with a larger size
again, __GFP_ZERO can't be fully honored, since we don't know the
previous size, but only the bucket size.
Example:
buf = kzalloc(64, GFP_KERNEL);
memset(buf, 0xff, 64);
buf = krealloc(buf, 48, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
/* After this call the last 16 bytes are still 0xff. */
buf = krealloc(buf, 64, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
Fix this, by explicitly setting spare memory to zero, when shrinking an
allocation with __GFP_ZERO flag set or init_on_alloc enabled.
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
---
mm/slab_common.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index 40b582a014b8..cff602cedf8e 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -1273,6 +1273,13 @@ __do_krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
/* If the object still fits, repoison it precisely. */
if (ks >= new_size) {
+ /* Zero out spare memory. */
+ if (want_init_on_alloc(flags)) {
+ kasan_disable_current();
+ memset((void *)p + new_size, 0, ks - new_size);
+ kasan_enable_current();
+ }
+
p = kasan_krealloc((void *)p, new_size, flags);
return (void *)p;
}
base-commit: 7c3dd6d99f2df6a9d7944ee8505b195ba51c9b68
--
2.45.2
next reply other threads:[~2024-07-30 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-30 19:42 Danilo Krummrich [this message]
2024-07-30 19:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: krealloc: clarify valid usage of __GFP_ZERO Danilo Krummrich
2024-07-30 20:35 ` Andrew Morton
2024-07-31 0:02 ` Danilo Krummrich
2024-07-30 20:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: krealloc: consider spare memory for __GFP_ZERO Andrew Morton
2024-07-30 21:06 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-07-30 21:14 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-07-30 23:54 ` Danilo Krummrich
2024-07-31 14:30 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-07-31 14:31 ` Vlastimil Babka
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