Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] mm: BUG_ON to avoid NULL deference while __GFP_NOFAIL fails

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On 2024/07/31 19:29, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> @@ -827,8 +827,10 @@ kvmalloc_array_node_noprof(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
>>  {
>>  	size_t bytes;
>>  
>> -	if (unlikely(check_mul_overflow(n, size, &bytes)))
>> +	if (unlikely(check_mul_overflow(n, size, &bytes))) {
>> +		BUG_ON(flags & __GFP_NOFAIL);
> 
> Shouldn't we produce some kind of warning also in the no-NOFAIL case?
> Returning a NULL completely silently feels wrong.

Doesn't embedding macros like BUG_ON() into inline functions needlessly bloat
the kernel size? I think we can call a non-inlined function (that is marked
as EXPORT_SYMBOL()) for emitting warning.





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