From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michal Hocko Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 07:12:12 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] mm, treewide: Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() Message-Id: <20200617071212.GJ9499@dhcp22.suse.cz> List-Id: References: <20200616015718.7812-1-longman@redhat.com> <20200616230130.GJ27795@twin.jikos.cz> <20200617003711.GD8681@bombadil.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20200617003711.GD8681@bombadil.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: "Jason A . Donenfeld" , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, Jarkko Sakkinen , dsterba@suse.cz, David Howells , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James Morris , kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org, David Rientjes , Waiman Long , Dan Carpenter , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Weiner , Joe Perches , Andrew Morton , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com, linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org On Tue 16-06-20 17:37:11, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 01:01:30AM +0200, David Sterba wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:53:50AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > > On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 21:57 -0400, Waiman Long wrote: > > > > v4: > > > > - Break out the memzero_explicit() change as suggested by Dan Carpenter > > > > so that it can be backported to stable. > > > > - Drop the "crypto: Remove unnecessary memzero_explicit()" patch for > > > > now as there can be a bit more discussion on what is best. It will be > > > > introduced as a separate patch later on after this one is merged. > > > > > > To this larger audience and last week without reply: > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/573b3fbd5927c643920e1364230c296b23e7584d.camel@perches.com/ > > > > > > Are there _any_ fastpath uses of kfree or vfree? > > > > I'd consider kfree performance critical for cases where it is called > > under locks. If possible the kfree is moved outside of the critical > > section, but we have rbtrees or lists that get deleted under locks and > > restructuring the code to do eg. splice and free it outside of the lock > > is not always possible. > > Not just performance critical, but correctness critical. Since kvfree() > may allocate from the vmalloc allocator, I really think that kvfree() > should assert that it's !in_atomic(). Otherwise we can get into trouble > if we end up calling vfree() and have to take the mutex. FWIW __vfree already checks for atomic context and put the work into a deferred context. So this should be safe. It should be used as a last resort, though. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs