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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2022-09-23 23:28:07 +0300
committerVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>2022-09-29 12:05:57 +0300
commit9ed9cac1850a2a55674b4a17100c50b46f645921 (patch)
tree4b971acef7344c8d2910c0a25032635ce8e83c0f /mm/slab_common.c
parente45cc288724f0cfd497bb5920bcfa60caa335729 (diff)
downloadlinux-9ed9cac1850a2a55674b4a17100c50b46f645921.tar.xz
slab: Remove __malloc attribute from realloc functions
The __malloc attribute should not be applied to "realloc" functions, as the returned pointer may alias the storage of the prior pointer. Instead of splitting __malloc from __alloc_size, which would be a huge amount of churn, just create __realloc_size for the few cases where it is needed. Thanks to Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> for reporting build failures with gcc-8 in earlier version which tried to remove the #ifdef. While the "alloc_size" attribute is available on all GCC versions, I forgot that it gets disabled explicitly by the kernel in GCC < 9.1 due to misbehaviors. Add a note to the compiler_attributes.h entry for it. Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slab_common.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/slab_common.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index ccc02573588f..023dc0451d16 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -1150,8 +1150,8 @@ module_init(slab_proc_init);
#endif /* CONFIG_SLAB || CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG */
-static __always_inline void *__do_krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size,
- gfp_t flags)
+static __always_inline __realloc_size(2) void *
+__do_krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
{
void *ret;
size_t ks;