Re: [PATCH 3/5] mm/slab: Do not call kmalloc_large() for unsupported size
From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Thu Feb 24 2022 - 07:48:52 EST
On 2/21/22 11:53, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> SLAB's kfree() does not support freeing an object that is allocated from
> kmalloc_large(). Fix this as SLAB do not pass requests larger than
> KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE directly to page allocator.
AFAICS this issue is limited to build-time constant sizes. Might be better
to make this a build error rather than build-time NULL?
> Signed-off-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@xxxxxxxxx>