From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: urezki@gmail.com, hch@infradead.org, vbabka@suse.cz,
mhocko@suse.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm: kvrealloc: disable KASAN when switching to vmalloc
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 14:15:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240730141508.2da2194a2faacfabb6030c18@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240730185049.6244-2-dakr@kernel.org>
On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 20:49:41 +0200 Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> wrote:
> Disable KASAN accessibility checks when switching from a kmalloc buffer
> to a vmalloc buffer.
This text tells us "what", which was utterly evident from a cursory
read of the code.
Please tell us the "why". Completely.
> Fixes: 923a26b4c679 ("mm: kvmalloc: align kvrealloc() with krealloc()")
For those who are following along, this patch in mm-unstable so this
patch will be squished into the above.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-30 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-30 18:49 [PATCH 0/4] (k)vrealloc (__GFP_ZERO) fixes Danilo Krummrich
2024-07-30 18:49 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm: kvrealloc: disable KASAN when switching to vmalloc Danilo Krummrich
2024-07-30 21:15 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2024-07-30 22:47 ` Danilo Krummrich
2024-07-30 18:49 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm: vrealloc: consider spare memory for __GFP_ZERO Danilo Krummrich
2024-07-30 21:15 ` Andrew Morton
2024-07-30 18:49 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm: vrealloc: properly document __GFP_ZERO behavior Danilo Krummrich
2024-07-30 21:19 ` Andrew Morton
2024-07-30 22:43 ` Danilo Krummrich
2024-07-31 14:43 ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-07-31 15:10 ` Danilo Krummrich
2024-07-30 18:49 ` [PATCH 4/4] mm: kvrealloc: " Danilo Krummrich
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