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Message-ID: <20220922133014.GI32411@suse.cz>
Date:   Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:30:14 +0200
From:   David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Alex Elder <elder@...nel.org>,
        Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] btrfs: send: Proactively round up to kmalloc
 bucket size

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 08:10:05PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Instead of discovering the kmalloc bucket size _after_ allocation, round
> up proactively so the allocation is explicitly made for the full size,
> allowing the compiler to correctly reason about the resulting size of
> the buffer through the existing __alloc_size() hint.
> 
> Cc: linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>

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