Re: [RFC/PATCH RESEND -next 12/21] mm: util: move krealloc/kzfree to slab_common.c

From: Andrey Ryabinin
Date: Thu Jul 10 2014 - 03:48:47 EST


On 07/09/14 18:32, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2014, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
>
>> To avoid false positive reports in kernel address sanitizer krealloc/kzfree
>> functions shouldn't be instrumented. Since we want to instrument other
>> functions in mm/util.c, krealloc/kzfree moved to slab_common.c which is not
>> instrumented.
>>
>> Unfortunately we can't completely disable instrumentation for one function.
>> We could disable compiler's instrumentation for one function by using
>> __atribute__((no_sanitize_address)).
>> But the problem here is that memset call will be replaced by instumented
>> version kasan_memset since currently it's implemented as define:
>
> Looks good to me and useful regardless of the sanitizer going in.
>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
>

I also noticed in mm/util.c:

/* Tracepoints definitions. */
EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmalloc);
EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc);
EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmalloc_node);
EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc_node);
EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kfree);
EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_free);

Should I send another patch to move this to slab_common.c?


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