Re: [PATCH] mm/slub: clean up create_unique_id()

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On 2022/9/23 4:47, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
On 9/18/22 11:21, Chao Yu wrote:
From: Chao Yu <chao.yu@xxxxxxxx>

As Christophe JAILLET suggested:

In create_unique_id(),

"looks that ID_STR_LENGTH could even be reduced to 32 or 16.

The 2nd BUG_ON at the end of the function could certainly be just
removed as well or remplaced by a:
         if (p > name + ID_STR_LENGTH - 1) {
                 kfree(name);
                 return -E<something>;
         }
"

According to above suggestion, let's do below cleanups:
1. reduce ID_STR_LENGTH to 32, as the buffer size should be enough;
2. remove BUG_ON() and return error if check condition is true.

I'd leave a WARN_ON there as we really don't expect this to happen, so if it
does, we should be loud about it and not silently fail.

Agreed.


Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/2025305d-16db-abdf-6cd3-1fb93371c2b4@xxxxxxxxxx/
Suggested-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 81819f0fc828 ("SLUB core")
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao.yu@xxxxxxxx>
---
  mm/slub.c | 7 +++++--
  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 5ba6db62a5ab..a045c1ca8772 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -5883,7 +5883,7 @@ static inline struct kset *cache_kset(struct kmem_cache *s)
  	return slab_kset;
  }
-#define ID_STR_LENGTH 64
+#define ID_STR_LENGTH 32
/* Create a unique string id for a slab cache:
   *
@@ -5919,7 +5919,10 @@ static char *create_unique_id(struct kmem_cache *s)
  		*p++ = '-';
  	p += sprintf(p, "%07u", s->size);

Hm but sprintf() will happily overflow, so if we only detect that
afterwards, it's kinda too late to gracefully fail.
Should use snprintf() then?

Correct.

Updated in v2.

Thanks,


-	BUG_ON(p > name + ID_STR_LENGTH - 1);
+	if (p > name + ID_STR_LENGTH - 1) {
+		kfree(name);
+		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+	}
  	return name;
  }





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