Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Add kvmalloc_ab_c and kvzalloc_struct

[Kees Cook]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:32 AM, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 06:19:51PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
>> On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 07:24:47AM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
>> > > Thanks.  So it's OK to replace kmalloc and kzalloc, even though they
>> > > didn't previously consider vmalloc and even though kmalloc doesn't zero?
>> >
>> > We'll also need to replace the corresponding places where those structs
>> > are freed with kvfree().  Can coccinelle handle that too?
>>
>> Is the use of vmalloc a necessary part of the design?  Or could there be a
>> non vmalloc versions for call sites that are already ok with that?
>
> We can also add kmalloc_struct() along with kmalloc_ab_c that won't fall
> back to vmalloc but just return NULL.

Did this ever happen? I'd also like to see kmalloc_array_3d() or
something that takes three size arguments. We have a lot of this
pattern too:

kmalloc(sizeof(foo) * A * B, gfp...)

And we could turn that into:

kmalloc_array_3d(sizeof(foo), A, B, gfp...)

-Kees


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Kees Cook
Pixel Security