linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH mm v2 32/33] kasan: dynamically allocate stack ring entries

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Date:   Mon, 5 Sep 2022 22:34:38 +0200
From:   Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>
To:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc:     andrey.konovalov@...ux.dev,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>,
        Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@...gle.com>,
        Florian Mayer <fmayer@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mm v2 32/33] kasan: dynamically allocate stack ring entries

On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 10:09 PM Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> > -#define KASAN_STACK_RING_SIZE (32 << 10)
> > +#define KASAN_STACK_RING_SIZE_DEFAULT (32 << 10)
> >
>
> This could be moved to tags.c, as there are no other users elsewhere.

Will fix in v3.

> > +/* kasan.stack_ring_size=32768 */
>
> What does that comment say? Is it "kasan.stack_ring_size=<entries>"?

Yes, will clarify in v3.

> Is it already in the documentation?

Will add in v3.

> > +     if (kasan_stack_collection_enabled()) {
> > +             if (!stack_ring.size)
> > +                     stack_ring.size = KASAN_STACK_RING_SIZE_DEFAULT;
> > +             stack_ring.entries = memblock_alloc(
> > +                                     sizeof(stack_ring.entries[0]) *
> > +                                             stack_ring.size,
> > +                                     SMP_CACHE_BYTES);
>
> memblock_alloc() can fail. Because unlikely, stack collection should
> probably just be disabled.
>
> (minor: excessive line breaks makes the above unreadable.)

Will fix both in v3.

Thanks!