linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/3] SLAB: Add PageSlab checking to ksize()

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 23 May 2008 17:23:41 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dhowells@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/3] SLAB: Add PageSlab checking to ksize()

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 07:13:56PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>...
> However, I think we should just look at getting rid of ksize()
> altogether as it's only (ab)used by the nommu code and few call-sites
> that open-code krealloc().

As soon as your patch for the netfilter usage enters Linus' tree you can 
unexport it which will at least make new abuses from modules impossible.

>                        Pekka

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/