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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>,
	Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
	Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: warn potential return NULL for kmalloc_array and kvmalloc_array with __GFP_NOFAIL
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:19:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZppLwVtVHMxPhxpe@tiehlicka> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGsJ_4wxsMRJ7bLeaFaoWcjk=FszWrEiDM-3+kV9K=CMeGpeSA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri 19-07-24 23:05:48, Barry Song wrote:
[...]
> BTW, we are really exposing potential exploits. Rather than an early
> stage BUG_ON(), is it reasonable to BUG_ON when we really return
> NULL for NOFAIL at the last moment? This will crash the system but it
> is still safer than exposing exploits.

I believe the whole discssion here revolves around either using BUG_ON
or retrying without any sleep. But I guess you are specifically talking
about those two original k[v]malloc_array* interfaces which have
introduced the early break. For those BUG_ON is a safer option than
WARN_ON definitely. Please involve Kees who has introduced those.
kvmalloc_node_noprof would require something similar. It checks for
INT_MAX. You can test whether Linus is OK with such a change that way ;)

Good luck
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs



  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-19 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-17 23:00 Barry Song
2024-07-18  6:58 ` Michal Hocko
2024-07-18  7:04   ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-18  7:12     ` Michal Hocko
2024-07-18  8:16       ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-07-18  7:22   ` Barry Song
2024-07-18  7:27     ` Michal Hocko
2024-07-18  7:41       ` Barry Song
2024-07-18  7:53         ` Michal Hocko
2024-07-18  8:18           ` Barry Song
2024-07-18  8:32             ` Michal Hocko
2024-07-18  8:43               ` Barry Song
2024-07-18  8:50                 ` Michal Hocko
2024-07-19  0:35                   ` Barry Song
2024-07-19  7:02                     ` Michal Hocko
2024-07-19  7:07                       ` Barry Song
2024-07-19  7:42                         ` Michal Hocko
2024-07-19  7:51                           ` Barry Song
2024-07-19  8:01                             ` Michal Hocko
2024-07-19  8:28                               ` Barry Song
2024-07-19  8:40                                 ` Michal Hocko
2024-07-19  9:36                                   ` Barry Song
2024-07-19  9:45                                     ` Michal Hocko
2024-07-19  9:58                                       ` Barry Song
2024-07-19 10:57                                         ` Michal Hocko
2024-07-19 11:05                                           ` Barry Song
2024-07-19 11:19                                             ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2024-07-19  8:50                               ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-07-19  9:33                                 ` Michal Hocko
2024-07-19 10:10                                   ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-07-19 10:52                                     ` Michal Hocko
2024-07-19 11:13                                       ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-07-19 11:26                                         ` Michal Hocko
2024-07-19 13:02                                           ` Barry Song
2024-07-19 13:30                                             ` Michal Hocko
2024-07-20  0:36                                               ` Barry Song
2024-07-22  7:23                                                 ` Michal Hocko
2024-07-22  7:34                                                   ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-07-19  7:37                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-19  7:43                         ` Barry Song
2024-07-19  7:53                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-20 22:14                             ` Barry Song
2024-07-22  7:26                               ` Michal Hocko
2024-07-22  8:09                                 ` Barry Song
2024-07-22  9:01                                   ` Michal Hocko
2024-07-22 23:18                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-22 23:22                                       ` Barry Song
2024-07-19  8:35                     ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-07-18  7:48 ` Hailong Liu
2024-07-18  8:33   ` Barry Song

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