linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lib/string_helpers: Use passed in GFP

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Message-ID: <4fcb0507-d483-e49c-be9e-389d96187fc5@wanadoo.fr>
Date:   Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:05:57 +0200
From:   Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy@...nel.org>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
Cc:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/string_helpers: Use passed in GFP_ flags

Le 21/07/2023 à 17:08, Andy Shevchenko a écrit :
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 05:57:00PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> This patch doesn't affect runtime because all the callers pass GFP_KERNEL
>> as the allocation flags.  However, it should use the passed in "gfp" as
>> the allocation flags.
> 
> Please, Cc Kees Cook as he stepped in as a maintainer of this in particular.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy@...nel.org>

Hi,
just for the records, see [1].
Another approach was proposed by Michal Hocko in [2].

CJ

[1]: 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/1ec96b6e4f2e35599931d7516c6938c4a8845bf0.1642337606.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr/

[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/YeWOd2G69LyR3PVZ@dhcp22.suse.cz/

> 
>> Fixes: 0ee931c4e31a ("mm: treewide: remove GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag")
>> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
>> ---
>>   lib/string_helpers.c | 4 ++--
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/lib/string_helpers.c b/lib/string_helpers.c
>> index d3b1dd718daf..be517c25737d 100644
>> --- a/lib/string_helpers.c
>> +++ b/lib/string_helpers.c
>> @@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ char *kstrdup_quotable_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, gfp_t gfp)
>>   	char *buffer, *quoted;
>>   	int i, res;
>>   
>> -	buffer = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +	buffer = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, gfp);
>>   	if (!buffer)
>>   		return NULL;
>>   
>> @@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ char *kstrdup_quotable_file(struct file *file, gfp_t gfp)
>>   		return kstrdup("<unknown>", gfp);
>>   
>>   	/* We add 11 spaces for ' (deleted)' to be appended */
>> -	temp = kmalloc(PATH_MAX + 11, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +	temp = kmalloc(PATH_MAX + 11, gfp);
>>   	if (!temp)
>>   		return kstrdup("<no_memory>", gfp);
>>   
>> -- 
>> 2.39.2
>>
>