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From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>,
	keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
	Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>,
	Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@redhat.com>,
	Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>,
	Chris von Recklinghausen <crecklin@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] KEYS: Avoid false positive ENOMEM error on key read
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 11:45:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4c92057-c364-965c-a251-02cbe46229b6@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <416690.1583771540@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

On 3/9/20 12:32 PM, David Howells wrote:
> Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> +			tmpbuf = kmalloc(tbuflen, GFP_KERNEL);
> This would probably be better off using kvmalloc() - otherwise big objects
> have to be constructed from runs of contiguous pages.  But since all we're
> doing is buffering for userspace, we don't care about that.
>
> If you agree, we can address it with an additional patch.
>
> David

That is certainly fine with me. I don't care if the pages are contiguous
or not. Will add a patch 3 for that as suggested.

Thanks,
Longman


  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-10 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-08 17:04 [PATCH v2 0/2] KEYS: Read keys to internal buffer & then copy to userspace Waiman Long
2020-03-08 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] KEYS: Don't write out to userspace while holding key semaphore Waiman Long
2020-03-13  1:04   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-03-13 13:29     ` Waiman Long
2020-03-13 15:28       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2020-03-13 16:57         ` Waiman Long
2020-03-08 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] KEYS: Avoid false positive ENOMEM error on key read Waiman Long
2020-03-09 16:32 ` David Howells
2020-03-10 15:45   ` Waiman Long [this message]
2020-03-10 15:58     ` Waiman Long
2020-03-10 17:12     ` David Howells
2020-03-11 15:33       ` Waiman Long

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