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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: Improve bit diffusion for freelist ptr obfuscation
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 09:41:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202003090941.1F1FEE75@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200309005112.GU21491@sasha-vm>

On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 08:51:12PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 02:51:27PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 11:20:37PM +0000, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > [This is an automated email]
> > > 
> > > This commit has been processed because it contains a "Fixes:" tag
> > > fixing commit: 2482ddec670f ("mm: add SLUB free list pointer obfuscation").
> > > 
> > > The bot has tested the following trees: v5.5.8, v5.4.24, v4.19.108, v4.14.172.
> > > 
> > > v5.5.8: Build failed! Errors:
> > >     mm/slub.c:262:4: error: implicit declaration of function ‘swab’; did you mean ‘swap’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> > > 
> > 
> > Eek; this must be missing an include that is implicit from something
> > recent? I will investigate...
> 
> swab() didn't exist "back then" :) It was introduced by d5767057c9a7
> ("uapi: rename ext2_swab() to swab() and share globally in swab.h"). I
> can just take that patch to stable kernels.

Ah, perfect. Yes, that would be very nice.

-- 
Kees Cook

      reply	other threads:[~2020-03-09 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <202003051623.AF4F8CB@keescook>
2020-03-07 23:20 ` [PATCH] slub: Improve bit diffusion for freelist ptr obfuscation Sasha Levin
2020-03-08 21:51   ` Kees Cook
2020-03-09  0:51     ` Sasha Levin
2020-03-09 16:41       ` Kees Cook [this message]

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