linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 16/20] mm/slab: move kmalloc

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Message-ID: <202311132006.51222C473@keescook>
Date:   Mon, 13 Nov 2023 20:07:28 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc:     David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>,
        Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ts.linux.dev,
        Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, cgroups@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/20] mm/slab: move kmalloc_slab() to mm/slab.h

On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 08:13:57PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> In preparation for the next patch, move the kmalloc_slab() function to
> the header, as it will have callers from two files, and make it inline.
> To avoid unnecessary bloat, remove all size checks/warnings from
> kmalloc_slab() as they just duplicate those in callers, especially after
> recent changes to kmalloc_size_roundup(). We just need to adjust handling
> of zero size in __do_kmalloc_node(). Also we can stop handling NULL
> result from kmalloc_slab() there as that now cannot happen (unless
> called too early during boot).
> 
> The size_index array becomes visible so rename it to a more specific
> kmalloc_size_index.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>

Yeah, removing the redundant size checks does make this nicer to look at. :)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

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Kees Cook