From: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
To: "Alexandra Winter" <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, "Vasily Gorbik" <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
"Christian Borntraeger" <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>,
"Alexander Gordeev" <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
"Heiko Carstens" <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] s390/ism: Zerorize dmb at allocation
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:21:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260928152134.67D431F00893@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260928151420.383105-1-wintera@linux.ibm.com>
> Sashiko reported [1] that 'Missing __GFP_ZERO in folio_alloc() causes
> uninitialized kernel memory to be exposed in the receive message buffer'.
> An ism dmb is receive-only, so the data is not leaked to a remote peer. In
> general the smc kernel module (dibs client) will only push newly received
> data to userspace. We still should not have uninitialized data in a receive
> buffer.
>
> Since
> commit 750afb08ca71 ("cross-tree: phase out dma_zalloc_coherent()")
> dma_alloc_coherent no longer required the __GFP_ZERO flag, but when
> commit 83781384a96b ("s390/ism: Properly fix receive message buffer allocation")
> switched to folio_alloc(), it should have added back the __GFP_ZERO flag.
>
> Add __GFP_ZERO flag and state in dibs.h that register_dbm() provides
> a zerorized buffer (dibs_lo already does).
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-s390/20260903143746.A5CC41F00A3A@smtp.kernel.org/ [1]
> Fixes: 83781384a96b ("s390/ism: Properly fix receive message buffer allocation")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues. It looks great!
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Sashiko AI review · https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260928151420.383105-1-wintera@linux.ibm.com?part=1
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-28 15:14 [PATCH net v2] s390/ism: Zerorize dmb at allocation Alexandra Winter
2026-09-28 15:19 ` netdev-bot+sinfo
2026-09-29 7:59 ` Alexandra Winter
2026-09-28 15:21 ` sashiko-bot [this message]
2026-10-01 0:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2026-10-09 15:58 ` Alexandra Winter
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