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From: Osama Abdelkader <osama.abdelkader@gmail.com>
To: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: "Thomas Weißschuh" <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>,
	"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	"Kees Cook" <kees@kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
	"Jeff Xu" <jeffxu@chromium.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: vdso: fix AArch32 compat init allocation leaks
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:13:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <acK4RbHmnxSHcTqY@osama> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <acJkDv0AT_YqDIF9@willie-the-truck>

On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 10:14:38AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 11:09:12AM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 09:59:15AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 10:41:16PM +0100, Osama Abdelkader wrote:
> > > > aarch32_alloc_vdso_pages() allocates the AA32 vdso pagelist, the compat
> > > > sigpage, then the kuser vectors page. If aarch32_alloc_sigpage() or
> > > > aarch32_alloc_kuser_vdso_page() fails, earlier allocations were not freed.
> > > 
> > > But why should they be freed? The vectors, sigpage and vdso are
> > > independent from one another, so we can limp along with whatever we
> > > managed to allocate. I'm not sure how far we'll get, mind, if single
> > > page allocations are failing at initcall time...
> > 
> > In the core vDSO datastore we just panic() if the allocation fails.
> > (See tip/timers/vdso for the currentl implementation)
> > The same should work for the architecture-specific bits.
> 
> I think we should just leave the code as-is tbh unless there's an actual
> issue here.
> 
> Will

Thanks all for the review.

Regards,
Osama


      reply	other threads:[~2026-03-24 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-23 21:41 [PATCH] arm64: vdso: fix AArch32 compat init allocation leaks Osama Abdelkader
2026-03-23 22:29 ` Andrew Morton
2026-03-24  9:59 ` Will Deacon
2026-03-24 10:09   ` Thomas Weißschuh
2026-03-24 10:14     ` Will Deacon
2026-03-24 16:13       ` Osama Abdelkader [this message]

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