linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v3] net: ipa: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size

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Message-Id: <166625581689.27221.12370908891307752871.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 20 Oct 2022 08:50:16 +0000
From:   patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
        pabeni@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, elder@...aro.org,
        elder@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net: ipa: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (master)
by Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>:

On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 02:28:27 -0700 you 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: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <elder@...aro.org>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/4d75a9fd-1b94-7208-9de8-5a0102223e68@ieee.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [v3] net: ipa: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/36875a063b5e

You are awesome, thank you!
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