On Mon, 23 Apr 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 08:06:16PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > Some bugs (such as buffer overflows) are better detected > > with kmalloc code, so we must test the kmalloc path too. > > Well now, this brings up another item for the collective TODO list -- > implement redzone checks for vmalloc. Unless this is something already > taken care of by kasan or similar. The kmalloc overflow testing is also not ideal - it rounds the size up to the next slab size and detects buffer overflows only at this boundary. Some times ago, I made a "kmalloc guard" patch that places a magic number immediatelly after the requested size - so that it can detect overflows at byte boundary ( https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2014-September/msg00018.html ) That patch found a bug in crypto code: ( http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1409.1/02325.html ) Mikulas
