linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6.6.y] maple_tree: do not preallocate nodes for slot stores

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 09:53:53 -0800
From: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@...cle.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        maple-tree@...ts.infradead.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        willy@...radead.org, liam.howlett@...cle.com,
        zhangpeng.00@...edance.com, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.6.y] maple_tree: do not preallocate nodes for slot
 stores

On 12/18/23 2:59 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 11:52:55AM -0800, Sidhartha Kumar wrote:
>> mas_preallocate() defaults to requesting 1 node for preallocation and then
>> ,depending on the type of store, will update the request variable. There
>> isn't a check for a slot store type, so slot stores are preallocating the
>> default 1 node. Slot stores do not require any additional nodes, so add a
>> check for the slot store case that will bypass node_count_gfp(). Update
>> the tests to reflect that slot stores do not require allocations.
>>
>> User visible effects of this bug include increased memory usage from the
>> unneeded node that was allocated.
>>
>> Fixes: 0b8bb544b1a7 ("maple_tree: update mas_preallocate() testing")
>> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 6.6+
>> Signed-off-by: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@...cle.com>
>> ---
>> This is a modified backport as the patch to fix this in upstream does not
>> apply to 6.6 because the node_end field was moved from the ma_wr_state to
>> the ma_state after 6.6.
> 
> What is the git commit id of this change in Linus's tree?

The patch is in akpm's mm-hotfixes-unstable tree and has not made it to Linus's 
tree yet.

Thanks,
Sid
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h