From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 17BA379CD for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:34:07 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1771781648; cv=none; b=u0rSXN8gE5a1rxUUD2WHk83hdLAmgNJA4rWw2g9BSznRRoFuu4WFvlhkK3PkhWB9vfUMXtvxUj6VMQsuSiJiYLM6gMWEgKR4pKg+yvPhF1V+jckKTYzFExkKb76tnBAXZQwY1TUYZN98au6l/y+7J+VzZR2h7TyskOD6G6YEUVs= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1771781648; c=relaxed/simple; bh=91TZ2L7BTR08gfgsPaezg6jFK3QlxQHymohuhFRdpS4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=Jy5WqZK3x6xNUzWUV2f6hA8oSHRTmHL2wcIBTPzsVxOqFrcubvey3ggir000TTzrL7TZQraQ5wlIDC8/fAueQZnSsGpr7YMHBwifzzBZbZeW7G+kr5QTTZmirqBFYsvi4IaQa+kqmwqhjvpdTdOA6w/zLYOu/3M+i5UOqylT9W0= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=gYR3l5Fx; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="gYR3l5Fx" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8FF9DC116D0; Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:34:07 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1771781647; bh=91TZ2L7BTR08gfgsPaezg6jFK3QlxQHymohuhFRdpS4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=gYR3l5FxiOvswizILlksCkQRNRdPF6KVoE4T0D3ODF4JaWZwz/ht2fAqgdalZM11L wGZFPzGZFUiomTzOe9D+m1sKsjsBvkSHe9yTU4ANAGey0h6aoEKP2NWDWiHPBLAaMP 8NEnryxHj6aTM+RlurRx0uAOhjYGwLItRyei0cPZ++VOIcySBZEt3DVOEleQmzl3WL 7q0fYrWZ8i86mDyhtyH6W+LiCJpxi6oUQpAnq5kLQZNkyLZStPk1R8xeNDtx/3ApIG UmEOjnCmBGnRhh1hnrLLoiCXI3jlEnZqqjzvYPsAKtpZbmaVdjvDqM660UYZzm0PQR qj6ZxA4vce7LA== Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:34:07 -0800 From: Kees Cook To: David Laight Cc: Eric Biggers , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] kmalloc_obj treewide refactor for v7.0-rc1 Message-ID: <202602220930.65743CF@keescook> References: <202602210108.0EABDA1CDD@keescook> <202602211442.1BE76271@keescook> <202602211508.57394C771A@keescook> <20260222010847.GA2135@quark> <20260222145010.31580e59@pumpkin> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260222145010.31580e59@pumpkin> On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 02:50:10PM +0000, David Laight wrote: > On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:08:47 -0800 > Eric Biggers wrote: > > ... > > It looks like the conversions of kmalloc() et al to kmalloc_flex() et al > > were never in linux-next, so presumably that was a factor? > > Was the patch even posted to lkml? > I don't remember seeing it. The function was in next for the whole dev cycle, but the conversion was huge, so I never sent it in email, but I've had a few snapshots on kernel.org for 0day to pick up, for example: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/log/?h=test/next-20260205/kmalloc_obj -- Kees Cook