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

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On 7/31/24 12:44 PM, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> 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.

Hm yeah we could probably make the whole function non-inline as it results
in a call anyway.




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