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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/percpu: Add a simple double-free check for per-CPU memory
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 15:51:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250904155146.485ab7def1b89ed7317b76ad@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250904143514.Yk6Ap-jy@linutronix.de>

On Thu, 4 Sep 2025 16:35:14 +0200 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> wrote:

> The free path clears the allocation bits in pcpu_chunk::alloc_map. A
> simple double free check would be to check if the bits, which are about
> to be cleared, are already cleared.
> 

Nice idea.  It's hardly a fast path!


  reply	other threads:[~2025-09-04 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-04 14:35 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-09-04 22:51 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2025-09-05 17:14   ` Christoph Lameter (Ampere)
2025-09-04 23:49 ` Dennis Zhou

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