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| author | Danilo Krummrich <[email protected]> | 2024-08-13 00:34:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <[email protected]> | 2024-09-03 21:15:37 -0700 |
| commit | 1a83a716ec233990e1fd5b6fbb1200ade63bf450 (patch) | |
| tree | 3fbb1818e036cb279d08dd28806676d43918349e /tools/perf/scripts/python | |
| parent | d0b003ce97ad6518dea4b0ed70081df95de04179 (diff) | |
mm: krealloc: consider spare memory for __GFP_ZERO
As long as krealloc() is called with __GFP_ZERO consistently, starting
with the initial memory allocation, __GFP_ZERO should be fully honored.
However, if for an existing allocation krealloc() is called with a
decreased size, it is not ensured that the spare portion the allocation is
zeroed. Thus, if krealloc() is subsequently called with a larger size
again, __GFP_ZERO can't be fully honored, since we don't know the previous
size, but only the bucket size.
Example:
buf = kzalloc(64, GFP_KERNEL);
memset(buf, 0xff, 64);
buf = krealloc(buf, 48, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
/* After this call the last 16 bytes are still 0xff. */
buf = krealloc(buf, 64, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
Fix this, by explicitly setting spare memory to zero, when shrinking an
allocation with __GFP_ZERO flag set or init_on_alloc enabled.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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