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SubjectRe: [PATCH] slab: warning if total alloc size overflow
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Yang Bai wrote:
> Before, if the total alloc size is overflow,
> we just return NULL like alloc fail. But they
> are two different type problems. The former looks
> more like a programming problem. So add a warning
> here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Bai <hamo.by@gmail.com>
> ---
> include/linux/slab.h | 4 +++-
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
> index 573c809..5865237 100644
> --- a/include/linux/slab.h
> +++ b/include/linux/slab.h
> @@ -242,8 +242,10 @@ size_t ksize(const void *);
> */
> static inline void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
> {
> - if (size != 0 && n > ULONG_MAX / size)
> + if (size != 0 && n > ULONG_MAX / size) {
> + WARN(1, "Alloc memory size (%lu * %lu) overflow.", n, size);
> return NULL;
> + }
> return __kmalloc(n * size, flags | __GFP_ZERO);
> }

Did you check how much kernel text size increases? I'm pretty sure we'd
need to wrap this with CONFIG_SLAB_OVERFLOW ifdef.

Pekka


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