linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slub: fix kmalloc_pagealloc_invalid

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Date:   Mon, 2 Aug 2021 20:30:21 -0700
From:   Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
To:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
CC:     Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Wang Hai <wanghai38@...wei.com>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: fix kmalloc_pagealloc_invalid_free unit test

On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 11:08:18AM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> The unit test kmalloc_pagealloc_invalid_free makes sure that for the
> higher order slub allocation which goes to page allocator, the free is
> called with the correct address i.e. the virtual address of the head
> page.
> 
> The commit f227f0faf63b ("slub: fix unreclaimable slab stat for bulk
> free") unified the free code paths for page allocator based slub
> allocations but instead of using the address passed by the caller, it
> extracted the address from the page. Thus making the unit test
> kmalloc_pagealloc_invalid_free moot. So, fix this by using the address
> passed by the caller.
> 
> Should we fix this? I think yes because dev expect kasan to catch these
> type of programming bugs.

I think so too.

Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>

Thanks!