Re: [PATCH v3] IB/sa: Resolving use-after-free in ib_nl_send_msg

From: Divya Indi
Date: Fri Jun 19 2020 - 20:43:30 EST


Hi Jason,

Thanks for taking the time to review!

On 6/17/20 11:24 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:56:53AM -0700, Divya Indi wrote:
>> The other option might be to use GFP_NOWAIT conditionally ie
>> (only use GFP_NOWAIT when GFP_ATOMIC is not specified in gfp_mask else
>> use GFP_ATOMIC). Eventual goal being to not have a blocking memory allocation.
> This is probably safest for now, unless you can audit all callers and
> see if they can switch to GFP_NOWAIT as well

At present the callers with GFP_ATOMIC appear to be ipoib. Might not be
feasible to change them all to GFP_NOWAIT.

Will incorporate the review comments and send out v3 early next week.

Thanks,
Divya

>
> Jason