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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2207121701070.57893@gentwo.de>
Date:   Tue, 12 Jul 2022 17:13:44 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Christoph Lameter <cl@...two.de>
To:     Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>
cc:     Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Vasily Averin <vasily.averin@...ux.dev>,
        Matthew WilCox <willy@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/16] mm/sl[au]b: check if large object is valid in
 __ksize()

On Tue, 12 Jul 2022, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:

> __ksize() returns size of objects allocated from slab allocator.
> When invalid object is passed to __ksize(), returning zero
> prevents further memory corruption and makes caller be able to
> check if there is an error.
>
> If address of large object is not beginning of folio or size of
> the folio is too small, it must be invalid. Return zero in such cases.

Why return 0 if there is an error and why bother the callers with these
checks. BUG()?

> diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
> index 1f8db7959366..0d6cbe9d7ad0 100644
> --- a/mm/slab_common.c
> +++ b/mm/slab_common.c
> @@ -1013,8 +1013,12 @@ size_t __ksize(const void *object)
>
>  	folio = virt_to_folio(object);
>
> -	if (unlikely(!folio_test_slab(folio)))
> +	if (unlikely(!folio_test_slab(folio))) {
> +		if (WARN_ON(object != folio_address(folio) ||
> +				folio_size(folio) <= KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE))

Hmmm... This may change things a bit. Before this patch it was possible to
determine the storage size of order-0 pages using ksize(). Now this
returns 0?

I guess this is an error since the order-0 page cannot come from slab
allocations.