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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
	"Gustavo A . R . Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
		linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] wifi: cfg80211: simplify cfg80211_mlme_register_mgmt()
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 09:28:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb26c5bc9f6c3fd35351b9f9d170ada583d9964d.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241210143951.5685-2-dmantipov@yandex.ru>

On Tue, 2024-12-10 at 17:39 +0300, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
> Simplify 'cfg80211_mlme_register_mgmt()' to allocate an instance of
> 'struct cfg80211_mgmt_registration' only if the latter is really
> needed 

This part is very much broken, and I don't see that it's actually useful
to add a new "goto" just for the (unlikely) case of not needing the
allocation.

> (i.e. when the list of registrations should be updated)
> and prefer 'kmalloc()' over 'kzalloc()' since all of the members
> are explicitly initialized.

This part I disagree with, who knows what we might add. This isn't a
path where we might possibly care about the cost of zeroing, vs. the
added maintenance requirement.

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-12  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-10 14:39 [PATCH 1/2] wifi: cfg80211: annotate struct cfg80211_mgmt_registration with __counted_by() Dmitry Antipov
2024-12-10 14:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] wifi: cfg80211: simplify cfg80211_mlme_register_mgmt() Dmitry Antipov
2024-12-12  8:28   ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2024-12-31  4:59   ` kernel test robot
2024-12-10 16:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] wifi: cfg80211: annotate struct cfg80211_mgmt_registration with __counted_by() Johannes Berg

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