linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kfence: skip DMA allocations

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Date:   Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:05:00 +0200
From:   Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
To:     Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, dvyukov@...gle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kfence: skip DMA allocations

On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 at 15:00, Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com> wrote:
[...]
> +       /*
> +        * Skip DMA allocations. These must reside in the low memory, which we
> +        * cannot guarantee.
> +        */
> +       if (flags & (__GFP_DMA | __GFP_DMA32) ||

I think we want braces around "flags & (...)", so that this becomes:

    if ((flags & (...)) ||

> +           (s->flags & (SLAB_CACHE_DMA | SLAB_CACHE_DMA32)))
> +               return NULL;

Thanks,
-- Marco