Re: [GIT PULL] kmalloc_obj treewide refactor for v7.0-rc1

Kees Cook
2026-02-22T17:34:07Z

On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 02:50:10PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:08:47 -0800
> Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> 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

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Kees Cook