linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: Add additional consistency check

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Date:   Tue, 11 Apr 2017 21:39:48 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Add additional consistency check

On Tue 11-04-17 13:59:44, Cristopher Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2017, Michal Hocko wrote:
> 
> > I didn't say anything like that. Hence the proposed patch which still
> > needs some more thinking and evaluation.
> 
> This patch does not even affect kfree().

Ehm? Are we even talking about the same thing? The whole discussion was
to catch invalid pointers to _kfree_ and why BUG* is not the best way to
handle that. 

> Could you start another
> discussion thread where you discuss your suggestions for the changes in
> the allocators and how we could go about this?

I presume Kees will pursue
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170411141956.GP6729@dhcp22.suse.cz or
something along those lines.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs