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authorKees Cook <[email protected]>2025-05-15 21:42:16 +0000
committerAndrew Morton <[email protected]>2025-05-25 07:53:48 +0000
commit70d1eb031a68cbde4eed8099674be21778441c94 (patch)
treec3801b634218042c05aa475d664bc9f43d079226 /mm/vmalloc.c
parentmm: vmalloc: actually use the in-place vrealloc region (diff)
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mm: vmalloc: only zero-init on vrealloc shrink
The common case is to grow reallocations, and since init_on_alloc will have already zeroed the whole allocation, we only need to zero when shrinking the allocation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Fixes: a0309faf1cb0 ("mm: vmalloc: support more granular vrealloc() sizing") Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Tested-by: Pawan Gupta <[email protected]> Cc: Danilo Krummrich <[email protected]> Cc: Eduard Zingerman <[email protected]> Cc: "Erhard F." <[email protected]> Cc: Shung-Hsi Yu <[email protected]> Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmalloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 74bd00fd734d..00cf1b575c89 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -4093,8 +4093,8 @@ void *vrealloc_noprof(const void *p, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
* would be a good heuristic for when to shrink the vm_area?
*/
if (size <= old_size) {
- /* Zero out "freed" memory. */
- if (want_init_on_free())
+ /* Zero out "freed" memory, potentially for future realloc. */
+ if (want_init_on_free() || want_init_on_alloc(flags))
memset((void *)p + size, 0, old_size - size);
vm->requested_size = size;
kasan_poison_vmalloc(p + size, old_size - size);
@@ -4107,9 +4107,11 @@ void *vrealloc_noprof(const void *p, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
if (size <= alloced_size) {
kasan_unpoison_vmalloc(p + old_size, size - old_size,
KASAN_VMALLOC_PROT_NORMAL);
- /* Zero out "alloced" memory. */
- if (want_init_on_alloc(flags))
- memset((void *)p + old_size, 0, size - old_size);
+ /*
+ * No need to zero memory here, as unused memory will have
+ * already been zeroed at initial allocation time or during
+ * realloc shrink time.
+ */
vm->requested_size = size;
return (void *)p;
}