From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/16] slab: Remove __malloc attribute from realloc functions
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:13:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202209281011.66DD717D@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdXK+UN1YVZm9DenuXAM8hZRUZJwp=SXsueP7sWiVU3a9A@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 09:26:15AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Kees,
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 10:35 PM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> > The __malloc attribute should not be applied to "realloc" functions, as
> > the returned pointer may alias the storage of the prior pointer. Instead
> > of splitting __malloc from __alloc_size, which would be a huge amount of
> > churn, just create __realloc_size for the few cases where it is needed.
> >
> > Additionally removes the conditional test for __alloc_size__, which is
> > always defined now.
> >
> > Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
> > Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
> > Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> > Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> > Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
> > Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
> > Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>
> Thanks for your patch, which is now commit 63caa04ec60583b1 ("slab:
> Remove __malloc attribute from realloc functions") in next-20220927.
>
> Noreply@ellerman.id.au reported all gcc8-based builds to fail
> (e.g. [1], more at [2]):
>
> In file included from <command-line>:
> ./include/linux/percpu.h: In function ‘__alloc_reserved_percpu’:
> ././include/linux/compiler_types.h:279:30: error: expected
> declaration specifiers before ‘__alloc_size__’
> #define __alloc_size(x, ...) __alloc_size__(x, ## __VA_ARGS__) __malloc
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ./include/linux/percpu.h:120:74: note: in expansion of macro ‘__alloc_size’
> [...]
>
> It's building fine with e.g. gcc-9 (which is my usual m68k cross-compiler).
> Reverting this commit on next-20220927 fixes the issue.
>
> [1] http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/14803908/
> [2] http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/1bd8b75fe6adeaa89d02968bdd811ffe708cf839/
Eek! Thanks for letting me know. I'm confused about this --
__alloc_size__ wasn't optional in compiler_attributes.h -- but obviously
I broke something! I'll go figure this out.
-Kees
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-28 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-23 20:28 [PATCH v2 00/16] slab: Introduce kmalloc_size_roundup() Kees Cook
2022-09-23 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 01/16] slab: Remove __malloc attribute from realloc functions Kees Cook
2022-09-28 7:26 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-09-28 16:27 ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-09-28 17:13 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2022-09-28 21:39 ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-09-29 8:36 ` Michael Ellerman
2022-09-29 9:00 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-10-01 16:09 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2022-09-23 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 02/16] slab: Introduce kmalloc_size_roundup() Kees Cook
2022-09-26 13:15 ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-09-26 17:50 ` Kees Cook
2022-10-01 16:28 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2022-09-23 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 03/16] skbuff: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size Kees Cook
2022-09-24 9:11 ` Kees Cook
2022-09-23 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 04/16] skbuff: Phase out ksize() fallback for frag_size Kees Cook
2022-09-25 7:17 ` Paolo Abeni
2022-09-26 0:41 ` Kees Cook
2022-09-23 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 05/16] net: ipa: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size Kees Cook
2022-09-23 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 06/16] igb: " Kees Cook
2022-09-26 15:49 ` Ruhl, Michael J
2022-09-23 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 07/16] btrfs: send: " Kees Cook
2022-09-23 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 08/16] dma-buf: " Kees Cook
2022-09-26 9:29 ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Christian König
2022-09-23 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 09/16] coredump: " Kees Cook
2022-09-23 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 10/16] openvswitch: Use kmalloc_size_roundup() to match ksize() usage Kees Cook
2022-09-23 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 11/16] bpf: " Kees Cook
2022-09-23 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 12/16] devres: " Kees Cook
2022-09-23 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 13/16] mempool: " Kees Cook
2022-09-26 13:50 ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-09-26 18:24 ` Kees Cook
2022-09-23 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 14/16] kasan: Remove ksize()-related tests Kees Cook
2022-09-24 8:15 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2022-09-26 0:38 ` Kees Cook
2022-09-23 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 15/16] mm: Make ksize() a reporting-only function Kees Cook
2022-09-23 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 16/16] slab: Restore __alloc_size attribute to __kmalloc_track_caller Kees Cook
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