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Subject: Re: [PATCH net v1] net: skb: fix cross-cache free of KFENCE-allocated
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To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
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On 4/2/26 4:03 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2026 at 9:15 PM Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> wrote:
>> If we no longer care about the cost of accessing a struct page in the
>> free path, which the original commit was trying to avoid, this is
>> indeed the simplest fix — kfree() correctly handles objects via
>> virt_to_slab.
> We only have SLUB in modern kernels, kmem_cache_free() needs to touch it.
>
> Using is_kfence_address() in net/core/skbuff.c is pushing too hard in
> my opinion.
Thanks, I understand.