* [PATCH] test_meminit: use GFP_ATOMIC in RCU critical section
@ 2019-07-25 12:17 Alexander Potapenko
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From: Alexander Potapenko @ 2019-07-25 12:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Alexander Potapenko, Kees Cook, Andrew Morton, linux-kernel,
linux-mm, linux-security-module
kmalloc() shouldn't sleep while in RCU critical section, therefore
use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL.
The bug has been spotted by the 0day kernel testing robot.
Fixes: 7e659650cbda ("lib: introduce test_meminit module")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
---
lib/test_meminit.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/test_meminit.c b/lib/test_meminit.c
index 62d19f270cad..9729f271d150 100644
--- a/lib/test_meminit.c
+++ b/lib/test_meminit.c
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ static int __init do_kmem_cache_size(size_t size, bool want_ctor,
* Copy the buffer to check that it's not wiped on
* free().
*/
- buf_copy = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buf_copy = kmalloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (buf_copy)
memcpy(buf_copy, buf, size);
--
2.22.0.657.g960e92d24f-goog
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