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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slab.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/slab.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index 10e96137b44f..2da862bf6226 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -4192,11 +4192,14 @@ void __check_heap_object(const void *ptr, unsigned long n, #endif /* CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY */ /** - * __ksize -- Uninstrumented ksize. + * __ksize -- Report full size of underlying allocation * @objp: pointer to the object * - * Unlike ksize(), __ksize() is uninstrumented, and does not provide the same - * safety checks as ksize() with KASAN instrumentation enabled. + * This should only be used internally to query the true size of allocations. + * It is not meant to be a way to discover the usable size of an allocation + * after the fact. Instead, use kmalloc_size_roundup(). Using memory beyond + * the originally requested allocation size may trigger KASAN, UBSAN_BOUNDS, + * and/or FORTIFY_SOURCE. * * Return: size of the actual memory used by @objp in bytes */ |