Re: [PATCH 04/12] btrfs: send: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size

From: David Sterba
Date: Thu Sep 22 2022 - 09:36:48 EST


On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 08:10:05PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Instead of discovering the kmalloc bucket size _after_ allocation, round
> up proactively so the allocation is explicitly made for the full size,
> allowing the compiler to correctly reason about the resulting size of
> the buffer through the existing __alloc_size() hint.
>
> Cc: linux-btrfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>