From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bixuan Cui <cuibixuan@linux.alibaba.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, w@1wt.eu, keescook@chromium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] mm: delete oversized WARN_ON() in kvmalloc() calls
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 17:23:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yajk/oVypyUFTtgd@unreal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211201192643.ecb0586e0d53bf8454c93669@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 07:26:43PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 10:06:24 +0800 Bixuan Cui <cuibixuan@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
> > Delete the WARN_ON() and return NULL directly for oversized parameter
> > in kvmalloc() calls.
> > Also add unlikely().
> >
> > Fixes: 7661809d493b ("mm: don't allow oversized kvmalloc() calls")
> > Signed-off-by: Bixuan Cui <cuibixuan@linux.alibaba.com>
> > ---
> > There are a lot of oversize warnings and patches about kvmalloc() calls
> > recently. Maybe these warnings are not very necessary.
>
> Or maybe they are. Please let's take a look at these warnings, one at
> a time. If a large number of them are bogus then sure, let's disable
> the runtime test. But perhaps it's the case that calling code has
> genuine issues and should be repaired.
Andrew,
The problem is that this WARN_ON() is triggered by the users.
At least in the RDMA world, users can provide huge sizes and they expect
to get plain -ENOMEM and not dump stack, because it happens indirectly
to them.
In our case, these two kvcalloc() generates WARN_ON().
umem_odp->pfn_list = kvcalloc(
npfns, sizeof(*umem_odp->pfn_list), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!umem_odp->pfn_list)
return -ENOMEM;
umem_odp->dma_list = kvcalloc(
ndmas, sizeof(*umem_odp->dma_list), GFP_KERNEL);
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.16-rc3/source/drivers/infiniband/core/umem_odp.c#L80
It is not a kernel programmer error to allow "oversized kvmalloc call" .
Thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-02 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-02 2:06 [PATCH -next] mm: delete oversized WARN_ON() in kvmalloc() calls Bixuan Cui
2021-12-02 2:53 ` Tang Yizhou
2021-12-02 3:26 ` Andrew Morton
2021-12-02 4:05 ` Bixuan Cui
2021-12-02 4:29 ` Andrew Morton
2021-12-02 10:38 ` Jeremy Sowden
2021-12-02 15:34 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-12-02 21:16 ` Jeremy Sowden
2021-12-02 11:49 ` Bixuan Cui
2021-12-03 19:37 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-12-02 15:23 ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2021-12-02 15:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-12-02 16:08 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-12-02 19:08 ` Kees Cook
2021-12-02 19:24 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-12-02 21:23 ` Kees Cook
2021-12-02 22:03 ` Andrew Morton
2021-12-03 4:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-12-02 17:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-02 3:46 ` Kees Cook
2021-12-02 4:44 ` Bixuan Cui
2021-12-02 17:03 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-05 11:59 ` Leon Romanovsky
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