From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 01/10] mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 13:25:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200910202526.GU29330@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACT4Y+awrz-j8y5Qc8OS9qkov4doMnw1V=obwp3MB_LTvaUFXw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 07:11:41PM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 6:19 PM Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 5:43 PM Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > > + /* Calculate address for this allocation. */
> > > > + if (right)
> > > > + meta->addr += PAGE_SIZE - size;
> > > > + meta->addr = ALIGN_DOWN(meta->addr, cache->align);
> > >
> > > I would move this ALIGN_DOWN under the (right) if.
> > > Do I understand it correctly that it will work, but we expect it to do
> > > nothing for !right? If cache align is >PAGE_SIZE, nothing good will
> > > happen anyway, right?
> > > The previous 2 lines look like part of the same calculation -- "figure
> > > out the addr for the right case".
> >
> > Yes, makes sense.
> >
> > > > +
> > > > + schedule_delayed_work(&kfence_timer, 0);
> > > > + WRITE_ONCE(kfence_enabled, true);
> > >
> > > Can toggle_allocation_gate run before we set kfence_enabled? If yes,
> > > it can break. If not, it's still somewhat confusing.
> >
> > Correct, it should go after we enable KFENCE. We'll fix that in v2.
> >
> > > > +void __kfence_free(void *addr)
> > > > +{
> > > > + struct kfence_metadata *meta = addr_to_metadata((unsigned long)addr);
> > > > +
> > > > + if (unlikely(meta->cache->flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU))
> > >
> > > This may deserve a comment as to why we apply rcu on object level
> > > whereas SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU means slab level only.
> >
> > Sorry, what do you mean by "slab level"?
> > SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU means we have to wait for possible RCU accesses
> > in flight before freeing objects from that slab - that's basically
> > what we are doing here below:
>
> Exactly! You see it is confusing :)
> SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU does not mean that. rcu-freeing only applies to
> whole pages, that's what I mean by "slab level" (whole slabs are freed
> by rcu).
Just confirming Dmitry's description of SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU semantics.
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-10 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-07 13:40 [PATCH RFC 00/10] KFENCE: A low-overhead sampling-based memory safety error detector Marco Elver
2020-09-07 13:40 ` [PATCH RFC 01/10] mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure Marco Elver
2020-09-07 15:41 ` Jonathan Cameron
2020-09-07 16:38 ` Marco Elver
2020-09-10 14:57 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-09-10 15:06 ` Marco Elver
2020-09-10 15:48 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-09-10 16:22 ` Marco Elver
2020-09-10 15:42 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-09-10 16:19 ` Alexander Potapenko
2020-09-10 17:11 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-09-10 17:41 ` Marco Elver
2020-09-10 20:25 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2020-09-15 13:57 ` SeongJae Park
2020-09-15 14:14 ` Marco Elver
2020-09-15 14:26 ` SeongJae Park
2020-09-07 13:40 ` [PATCH RFC 02/10] x86, kfence: enable KFENCE for x86 Marco Elver
2020-09-07 13:40 ` [PATCH RFC 03/10] arm64, kfence: enable KFENCE for ARM64 Marco Elver
2020-09-09 15:13 ` Marco Elver
2020-09-07 13:40 ` [PATCH RFC 04/10] mm, kfence: insert KFENCE hooks for SLAB Marco Elver
2020-09-11 7:17 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-09-11 12:24 ` Marco Elver
2020-09-11 13:03 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-09-07 13:40 ` [PATCH RFC 05/10] mm, kfence: insert KFENCE hooks for SLUB Marco Elver
2020-09-07 13:40 ` [PATCH RFC 06/10] kfence, kasan: make KFENCE compatible with KASAN Marco Elver
2020-09-11 7:04 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-09-11 13:00 ` Marco Elver
2020-09-07 13:40 ` [PATCH RFC 07/10] kfence, kmemleak: make KFENCE compatible with KMEMLEAK Marco Elver
2020-09-08 11:53 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-09-08 12:29 ` Alexander Potapenko
2020-09-07 13:40 ` [PATCH RFC 08/10] kfence, lockdep: make KFENCE compatible with lockdep Marco Elver
2020-09-07 13:40 ` [PATCH RFC 09/10] kfence, Documentation: add KFENCE documentation Marco Elver
2020-09-07 15:33 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-09-07 16:33 ` Marco Elver
2020-09-07 17:55 ` Andrey Konovalov
2020-09-07 18:16 ` Marco Elver
2020-09-08 15:54 ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-08 16:14 ` Marco Elver
2020-09-11 7:14 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-09-11 7:46 ` Marco Elver
2020-09-07 13:40 ` [PATCH RFC 10/10] kfence: add test suite Marco Elver
2020-09-08 11:48 ` [PATCH RFC 00/10] KFENCE: A low-overhead sampling-based memory safety error detector Vlastimil Babka
2020-09-08 12:16 ` Alexander Potapenko
2020-09-08 14:40 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-09-08 15:21 ` Marco Elver
[not found] ` <e399d8d5-03c2-3c13-2a43-3bb8e842c55a@intel.com>
2020-09-08 15:31 ` Marco Elver
2020-09-08 15:36 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-09-08 15:56 ` Marco Elver
2020-09-11 7:35 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-09-11 12:03 ` Marco Elver
2020-09-11 13:09 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-09-11 13:33 ` Marco Elver
2020-09-11 16:33 ` Marco Elver
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