The patch titled Subject: slub: avoid redzone when choosing freepointer location has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was slub-avoid-redzone-when-choosing-freepointer-location.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: slub: avoid redzone when choosing freepointer location Marco Elver reported system crashes when booting with "slub_debug=Z". The freepointer location (s->offset) was not taking into account that the "inuse" size that includes the redzone area should not be used by the freelist pointer. Change the calculation to save the area of the object that an inline freepointer may be written into. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/202004151054.BD695840@keescook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200415164726.GA234932@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 3202fa62fb43 ("slub: relocate freelist pointer to middle of object") Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slub.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/slub.c~slub-avoid-redzone-when-choosing-freepointer-location +++ a/mm/slub.c @@ -3533,6 +3533,7 @@ static int calculate_sizes(struct kmem_c { slab_flags_t flags = s->flags; unsigned int size = s->object_size; + unsigned int freepointer_area; unsigned int order; /* @@ -3541,6 +3542,13 @@ static int calculate_sizes(struct kmem_c * the possible location of the free pointer. */ size = ALIGN(size, sizeof(void *)); + /* + * This is the area of the object where a freepointer can be + * safely written. If redzoning adds more to the inuse size, we + * can't use that portion for writing the freepointer, so + * s->offset must be limited within this for the general case. + */ + freepointer_area = size; #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG /* @@ -3582,13 +3590,13 @@ static int calculate_sizes(struct kmem_c */ s->offset = size; size += sizeof(void *); - } else if (size > sizeof(void *)) { + } else if (freepointer_area > sizeof(void *)) { /* * Store freelist pointer near middle of object to keep * it away from the edges of the object to avoid small * sized over/underflows from neighboring allocations. */ - s->offset = ALIGN(size / 2, sizeof(void *)); + s->offset = ALIGN(freepointer_area / 2, sizeof(void *)); } #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx are