Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: fix xyz_noprof functions calling profiled functions

From: Kees Cook
Date: Fri May 31 2024 - 17:08:20 EST


On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 01:53:50PM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> Grepping /proc/allocinfo for "noprof" reveals several xyz_noprof functions,
> which means internally they are calling profiled functions. This should
> never happen as such calls move allocation charge from a higher level
> location where it should be accounted for into these lower level helpers.
> Fix this by replacing profiled function calls with noprof ones.
>
> Fixes: b951aaff5035 ("mm: enable page allocation tagging")
> Fixes: e26d8769da6d ("mempool: hook up to memory allocation profiling")
> Fixes: 88ae5fb755b0 ("mm: vmalloc: enable memory allocation profiling")
> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Kees Cook