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] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <5237617F.6010107@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:52:31 -0400
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, iamjoonsoo.kim@....com,
	rientjes@...gle.com, kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v5 1/4] mm/vmalloc: don't set area->caller twice

On 9/14/2013 7:45 PM, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> Changelog:
>  *v1 -> v2: rebase against mmotm tree
> 
> The caller address has already been set in set_vmalloc_vm(), there's no need

                                            setup_vmalloc_vm()

> to set it again in __vmalloc_area_node.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  mm/vmalloc.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index 1074543..d78d117 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -1566,7 +1566,6 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  		pages = kmalloc_node(array_size, nested_gfp, node);
>  	}
>  	area->pages = pages;
> -	area->caller = caller;
>  	if (!area->pages) {
>  		remove_vm_area(area->addr);
>  		kfree(area);

Then, __vmalloc_area_node() no longer need "caller" argument. It can use area->caller instead.


--
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/

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ