Re: [PATCH v2] mm: Make ksize() a reporting-only function

[David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2022, Kees Cook wrote:

> With all "silently resizing" callers of ksize() refactored, remove the
> logic in ksize() that would allow it to be used to effectively change
> the size of an allocation (bypassing __alloc_size hints, etc). Users
> wanting this feature need to either use kmalloc_size_roundup() before an
> allocation, or use krealloc() directly.
> 
> For kfree_sensitive(), move the unpoisoning logic inline. Replace the
> some of the partially open-coded ksize() in __do_krealloc with ksize()
> now that it doesn't perform unpoisoning.
> 
> Adjust the KUnit tests to match the new ksize() behavior.
> 
> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
> Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>