linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 19/25] netfs: Speed up buffered reading

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Message-ID: <961634.1727130830@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 23:33:50 +0100
From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 19/25] netfs: Speed up buffered reading

Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@...il.com> wrote:

> - null-ptr-deref is triggered by access to page->pcp_list.next
>   when list_del() is called from page_alloc.c:__rmqueue_pcplist(),

Can you tell me what the upstream commit ID of your kernel is?  (before any
patches are stacked on it)

If you can modify your kernel, can you find the following in fs/netfs/:

buffered_read.c:127:			new = kmalloc(sizeof(*new), GFP_NOFS);
buffered_read.c:353:	folioq = kmalloc(sizeof(*folioq), GFP_KERNEL);
buffered_read.c:458:	folioq = kmalloc(sizeof(*folioq), GFP_KERNEL);
misc.c:25:		tail = kmalloc(sizeof(*tail), GFP_NOFS);

and change the kmalloc to kzalloc?

David