From: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, vbabka@suse.cz
Cc: andreyknvl@gmail.com, cl@gentwo.org, dvyukov@google.com,
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Subject: [PATCH V4 1/8] mm/slab: use unsigned long for orig_size to ensure proper metadata align
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:08:36 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251222110843.980347-2-harry.yoo@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251222110843.980347-1-harry.yoo@oracle.com>
When both KASAN and SLAB_STORE_USER are enabled, accesses to
struct kasan_alloc_meta fields can be misaligned on 64-bit architectures.
This occurs because orig_size is currently defined as unsigned int,
which only guarantees 4-byte alignment. When struct kasan_alloc_meta is
placed after orig_size, it may end up at a 4-byte boundary rather than
the required 8-byte boundary on 64-bit systems.
Note that 64-bit architectures without HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
are assumed to require 64-bit accesses to be 64-bit aligned.
See HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS and commit adab66b71abf ("Revert:
"ring-buffer: Remove HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS"") for more details.
Change orig_size from unsigned int to unsigned long to ensure proper
alignment for any subsequent metadata. This should not waste additional
memory because kmalloc objects are already aligned to at least
ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN.
Suggested-by: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 6edf2576a6cc ("mm/slub: enable debugging memory wasting of kmalloc")
Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
---
mm/slub.c | 14 +++++++-------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index ad71f01571f0..1c747435a6ab 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -857,7 +857,7 @@ static inline bool slab_update_freelist(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab,
* request size in the meta data area, for better debug and sanity check.
*/
static inline void set_orig_size(struct kmem_cache *s,
- void *object, unsigned int orig_size)
+ void *object, unsigned long orig_size)
{
void *p = kasan_reset_tag(object);
@@ -867,10 +867,10 @@ static inline void set_orig_size(struct kmem_cache *s,
p += get_info_end(s);
p += sizeof(struct track) * 2;
- *(unsigned int *)p = orig_size;
+ *(unsigned long *)p = orig_size;
}
-static inline unsigned int get_orig_size(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)
+static inline unsigned long get_orig_size(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)
{
void *p = kasan_reset_tag(object);
@@ -883,7 +883,7 @@ static inline unsigned int get_orig_size(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)
p += get_info_end(s);
p += sizeof(struct track) * 2;
- return *(unsigned int *)p;
+ return *(unsigned long *)p;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
@@ -1198,7 +1198,7 @@ static void print_trailer(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab, u8 *p)
off += 2 * sizeof(struct track);
if (slub_debug_orig_size(s))
- off += sizeof(unsigned int);
+ off += sizeof(unsigned long);
off += kasan_metadata_size(s, false);
@@ -1394,7 +1394,7 @@ static int check_pad_bytes(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab, u8 *p)
off += 2 * sizeof(struct track);
if (s->flags & SLAB_KMALLOC)
- off += sizeof(unsigned int);
+ off += sizeof(unsigned long);
}
off += kasan_metadata_size(s, false);
@@ -7949,7 +7949,7 @@ static int calculate_sizes(struct kmem_cache_args *args, struct kmem_cache *s)
/* Save the original kmalloc request size */
if (flags & SLAB_KMALLOC)
- size += sizeof(unsigned int);
+ size += sizeof(unsigned long);
}
#endif
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-22 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-22 11:08 [PATCH V4 0/8] mm/slab: reduce slab accounting memory overhead by allocating slabobj_ext metadata within unsed slab space Harry Yoo
2025-12-22 11:08 ` Harry Yoo [this message]
2025-12-22 11:08 ` [PATCH V4 2/8] mm/slab: allow specifying free pointer offset when using constructor Harry Yoo
2025-12-22 11:08 ` [PATCH V4 3/8] ext4: specify the free pointer offset for ext4_inode_cache Harry Yoo
2025-12-22 11:08 ` [PATCH V4 4/8] mm/slab: abstract slabobj_ext access via new slab_obj_ext() helper Harry Yoo
2025-12-22 23:36 ` kernel test robot
2025-12-23 0:08 ` kernel test robot
2025-12-22 11:08 ` [PATCH V4 5/8] mm/slab: use stride to access slabobj_ext Harry Yoo
2025-12-22 11:08 ` [PATCH V4 6/8] mm/memcontrol,alloc_tag: handle slabobj_ext access under KASAN poison Harry Yoo
2025-12-22 11:08 ` [PATCH V4 7/8] mm/slab: save memory by allocating slabobj_ext array from leftover Harry Yoo
2025-12-23 1:40 ` kernel test robot
2025-12-23 15:08 ` Hao Li
2025-12-23 15:31 ` Harry Yoo
2025-12-23 16:08 ` Hao Li
2025-12-23 16:25 ` Harry Yoo
2025-12-24 3:18 ` Hao Li
2025-12-24 5:53 ` Harry Yoo
2025-12-24 6:05 ` Hao Li
2025-12-24 12:51 ` [PATCH] slub: clarify object field layout comments Hao Li
2025-12-29 7:07 ` Harry Yoo
2025-12-29 11:56 ` Hao Li
2025-12-22 11:08 ` [PATCH V4 8/8] mm/slab: place slabobj_ext metadata in unused space within s->size Harry Yoo
2025-12-24 5:33 ` Hao Li
2025-12-24 6:38 ` Harry Yoo
2025-12-24 12:43 ` Hao Li
2025-12-30 4:59 ` Harry Yoo
2025-12-30 8:54 ` Hao Li
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