linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] mm/slub: Avoid recursive loop with kmemleak

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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 10:06:17 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
	Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/slub: Avoid recursive loop with kmemleak

On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 03:52:24PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 01:55:23PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > The system will immediate fill up stack and crash when both

Oops, typo from me: "immediately". You'd never guess I'm a native English
speaker! :)

> > CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK and CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING are enabled.
> > Avoid allocation tagging of kmemleak caches, otherwise recursive
> > allocation tracking occurs.
> > 
> > Fixes: 279bb991b4d9 ("mm/slab: add allocation accounting into slab allocation and free paths")
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> 
> For the kmemleak bits:
> 
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>

Thanks!

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook