Re: [PATCH] lib/string_helpers: Use passed in GFP_ flags

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Le 21/07/2023 à 17:08, Andy Shevchenko a écrit :
On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 05:57:00PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
This patch doesn't affect runtime because all the callers pass GFP_KERNEL
as the allocation flags.  However, it should use the passed in "gfp" as
the allocation flags.

Please, Cc Kees Cook as he stepped in as a maintainer of this in particular.

Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hi,
just for the records, see [1].
Another approach was proposed by Michal Hocko in [2].

CJ

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1ec96b6e4f2e35599931d7516c6938c4a8845bf0.1642337606.git.christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx/

[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/YeWOd2G69LyR3PVZ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/


Fixes: 0ee931c4e31a ("mm: treewide: remove GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  lib/string_helpers.c | 4 ++--
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/string_helpers.c b/lib/string_helpers.c
index d3b1dd718daf..be517c25737d 100644
--- a/lib/string_helpers.c
+++ b/lib/string_helpers.c
@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ char *kstrdup_quotable_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, gfp_t gfp)
  	char *buffer, *quoted;
  	int i, res;
- buffer = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	buffer = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, gfp);
  	if (!buffer)
  		return NULL;
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ char *kstrdup_quotable_file(struct file *file, gfp_t gfp)
  		return kstrdup("<unknown>", gfp);
/* We add 11 spaces for ' (deleted)' to be appended */
-	temp = kmalloc(PATH_MAX + 11, GFP_KERNEL);
+	temp = kmalloc(PATH_MAX + 11, gfp);
  	if (!temp)
  		return kstrdup("<no_memory>", gfp);
--
2.39.2






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