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From: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
To: yanjun.zhu@linux.dev
Cc: ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm/kasan: avoid export __kasan_kmalloc
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 14:42:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YVRfQDK0bZwJdmik@elver.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210929234929.857611-1-yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 07:49PM -0400, yanjun.zhu@linux.dev wrote:
> From: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>
> 
> Since the function __kasan_kmalloc is only used in kasan module,
> remove EXPORT_SYMBOL to this function.

This is incorrect, see below.

> @@ -521,7 +521,6 @@ void * __must_check __kasan_kmalloc(struct kmem_cache *cache, const void *object
>  {
>  	return ____kasan_kmalloc(cache, object, size, flags);
>  }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kasan_kmalloc);

Sorry, but this will break all users of kmalloc() with KASAN on if
!TRACING:

	__always_inline kmalloc() include/linux/slab.h
	 -> __always_inline kmem_cache_alloc_trace() include/linux/slab.h
	  -> __always_inline kasan_kmalloc() include/linux/kasan.h
	   -> __kasan_kmalloc() mm/kasan/common.c


       reply	other threads:[~2021-09-29 12:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20210929234929.857611-1-yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>
2021-09-29 12:42 ` Marco Elver [this message]
2021-09-29 12:45   ` Marco Elver
2021-09-30  3:50   ` yanjun.zhu
2021-09-30  6:19     ` Marco Elver
2021-09-30  6:29       ` Zhu Yanjun
2021-09-30 11:13       ` Zhu Yanjun

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