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Since >>>>> they don't check the return, we are exposed to the security risks for NULL >>>>> deference. >>>>> >>>>> Though BUG_ON() is not encouraged by Linus, this is an unrecoverable >>>>> situation. >>>>> >>>>> Christoph Hellwig: >>>>> The whole freaking point of __GFP_NOFAIL is that callers don't handle >>>>> allocation failures. So in fact a straight BUG is the right thing >>>>> here. >>>>> >>>>> Vlastimil Babka: >>>>> It's just not a recoverable situation (WARN_ON is for recoverable >>>>> situations). The caller cannot handle allocation failure and at the same >>>>> time asked for an impossible allocation. BUG_ON() is a guaranteed oops >>>>> with stracktrace etc. We don't need to hope for the later NULL pointer >>>>> dereference (which might if really unlucky happen from a different >>>>> context where it's no longer obvious what lead to the allocation failing). >>>>> >>>>> Michal Hocko: >>>>> Linus tends to be against adding new BUG() calls unless the failure is >>>>> absolutely unrecoverable (e.g. corrupted data structures etc.). I am >>>>> not sure how he would look at simply incorrect memory allocator usage to >>>>> blow up the kernel. Now the argument could be made that those failures >>>>> could cause subtle memory corruptions or even be exploitable which might >>>>> be a sufficient reason to stop them early. >>>>> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Barry Song >>>>> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig >>>>> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka >>>>> Acked-by: Michal Hocko >>>>> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) >>>>> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes >>>>> Cc: Christoph Lameter >>>>> Cc: Pekka Enberg >>>>> Cc: David Rientjes >>>>> Cc: Joonsoo Kim >>>>> Cc: Roman Gushchin >>>>> Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> >>>>> Cc: Linus Torvalds >>>>> Cc: Kees Cook >>>>> Cc: "Eugenio Pérez" >>>>> Cc: Hailong.Liu >>>>> Cc: Jason Wang >>>>> Cc: Maxime Coquelin >>>>> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" >>>>> Cc: Xuan Zhuo >>>>> --- >>>>> include/linux/slab.h | 4 +++- >>>>> mm/page_alloc.c | 4 +++- >>>>> mm/util.c | 1 + >>>>> 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >>>>> >>>>> diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h >>>>> index c9cb42203183..4a4d1fdc2afe 100644 >>>>> --- a/include/linux/slab.h >>>>> +++ b/include/linux/slab.h >>>>> @@ -827,8 +827,10 @@ kvmalloc_array_node_noprof(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node) >>>>> { >>>>> size_t bytes; >>>>> >>>>> - if (unlikely(check_mul_overflow(n, size, &bytes))) >>>>> + if (unlikely(check_mul_overflow(n, size, &bytes))) { >>>>> + BUG_ON(flags & __GFP_NOFAIL); >>>>> return NULL; >>>>> + } >>>>> >>>>> return kvmalloc_node_noprof(bytes, flags, node); >>>>> } >>>>> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c >>>>> index 60742d057b05..d2c37f8f8d09 100644 >>>>> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c >>>>> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c >>>>> @@ -4668,8 +4668,10 @@ struct page *__alloc_pages_noprof(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order, >>>>> * There are several places where we assume that the order value is sane >>>>> * so bail out early if the request is out of bound. >>>>> */ >>>>> - if (WARN_ON_ONCE_GFP(order > MAX_PAGE_ORDER, gfp)) >>>>> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE_GFP(order > MAX_PAGE_ORDER, gfp)) { >>>>> + BUG_ON(gfp & __GFP_NOFAIL); >>>>> return NULL; >>>>> + } >>>>> >>>>> gfp &= gfp_allowed_mask; >>>>> /* >>>>> diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c >>>>> index ac01925a4179..678c647b778f 100644 >>>>> --- a/mm/util.c >>>>> +++ b/mm/util.c >>>>> @@ -667,6 +667,7 @@ void *__kvmalloc_node_noprof(DECL_BUCKET_PARAMS(size, b), gfp_t flags, int node) >>>>> >>>>> /* Don't even allow crazy sizes */ >>>>> if (unlikely(size > INT_MAX)) { >>>>> + BUG_ON(flags & __GFP_NOFAIL); >>>> >>>> No new BUG_ON please. WARN_ON_ONCE() + recovery code might be suitable here. >>> >>> Hi David, >>> WARN_ON_ONCE() might be fine but I don't see how it is possible to recover. >> >> Just return NULL? "shit in shit out" :) ? > > Returning NULL is perfectly right if gfp doesn't include __GFP_NOFAIL, > as it's the caller's responsibility to check the return value. However, with > __GFP_NOFAIL, users will directly dereference *(p + offset) even when > p == NULL. It is how __GFP_NOFAIL is supposed to work. If the caller is not supposed to pass that flag combination (shit in), we are not obligated to give a reasonable result (shit out). My point is that we should let the caller (possibly?) crash -- the one that did something that is wrong -- instead of forcing a crash using BUG_ON in this code here. It should all be caught during testing either way. And if some OOT module does something nasty, that's not our responsibility. BUG_ON is not a way to write assertions into the code. -- Cheers, David / dhildenb