Re: [PATCH 03/12] net: ipa: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size

Kees Cook
2022-09-22T15:57:48Z

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 08:45:19AM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> On 9/21/22 10:10 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Instead of discovering the kmalloc bucket size _after_ allocation, round
> > up proactively so the allocation is explicitly made for the full size,
> > allowing the compiler to correctly reason about the resulting size of
> > the buffer through the existing __alloc_size() hint.
> >
> > Cc: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>
> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> > Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> > Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
> > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> > ---
> > drivers/net/ipa/gsi_trans.c | 7 +++++--
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ipa/gsi_trans.c b/drivers/net/ipa/gsi_trans.c
> > index 18e7e8c405be..cec968854dcf 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ipa/gsi_trans.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ipa/gsi_trans.c
> > @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ int gsi_trans_pool_init(struct gsi_trans_pool *pool, size_t size, u32 count,
> > u32 max_alloc)
> > {
> > void *virt;
> > + size_t allocate;
>
> I don't care about this but the reverse Christmas tree
> convention would put the "allocate" variable definition
> above "virt".

Oops, yes; thank you!

-Kees

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Kees Cook