Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Nov 2022 10:28:33 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] slab: Remove special-casing of const 0 size allocations | From | Vlastimil Babka <> |
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On 11/18/22 18:06, Kees Cook wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 12:34:01PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> On 11/18/22 04:51, Kees Cook wrote: >> > Passing a constant-0 size allocation into kmalloc() or kmalloc_node() >> > does not need to be a fast-path operation, so the static return value >> > can be removed entirely. This is in preparation for making sure that >> > all paths through the inlines result in a full extern function call, >> >> So with the kmalloc_trace() already solved, we could now say it's not "in >> preparation", but simply "makes sure", right? I can correct that while >> picking this patch. > > Yeah, good point. I missed this when updating the commit logs. Thanks!
Great, pushed to slab/for-6.2/alloc_size
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