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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: "zhaoyang.huang" <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Zhaoyang Huang <huangzhaoyang@gmail.com>,
	ke.wang@unisoc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: make __GFP_SKIP_ZERO visible to skip zero operation
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 13:16:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZPCEim0AZG5hTSYH@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230831105252.1385911-1-zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 06:52:52PM +0800, zhaoyang.huang wrote:
> From: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>
> 
> There is no explicit gfp flags to let the allocation skip zero
> operation when CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON=y. I would like to make
> __GFP_SKIP_ZERO be visible even if kasan is not configured.

This bypasses a security feature so you're going to have to do a little
better than "I want it".

> Signed-off-by: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/gfp_types.h | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  mode change 100644 => 100755 include/linux/gfp_types.h

What is this garbage?  Header files should not be executable.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-31 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-31 10:52 [PATCH] mm: make __GFP_SKIP_ZERO visible to skip zero operation zhaoyang.huang
2023-08-31 12:16 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2023-09-01 10:29   ` Zhaoyang Huang
2023-09-01 12:55     ` Alexander Potapenko
2023-09-01 18:32       ` Kees Cook
2023-09-04  7:54       ` Michal Hocko
2023-09-04 17:34         ` Linus Torvalds
2023-09-04 18:22           ` Eric Biggers
2023-09-05  2:25             ` Alistair Popple
2023-09-06 14:17             ` Alexander Potapenko
2023-09-04  7:31     ` Michal Hocko

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