slab: Remove __malloc attribute from realloc functions

The __malloc attribute should not be applied to "realloc" functions, as
the returned pointer may alias the storage of the prior pointer. Instead
of splitting __malloc from __alloc_size, which would be a huge amount of
churn, just create __realloc_size for the few cases where it is needed.

Thanks to Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> for reporting build
failures with gcc-8 in earlier version which tried to remove the #ifdef.
While the "alloc_size" attribute is available on all GCC versions, I
forgot that it gets disabled explicitly by the kernel in GCC < 9.1 due
to misbehaviors. Add a note to the compiler_attributes.h entry for it.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 0fefdf528e0d..41bd036e7551 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ int kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *s);
 /*
  * Common kmalloc functions provided by all allocators
  */
-void * __must_check krealloc(const void *objp, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags) __alloc_size(2);
+void * __must_check krealloc(const void *objp, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags) __realloc_size(2);
 void kfree(const void *objp);
 void kfree_sensitive(const void *objp);
 size_t __ksize(const void *objp);
@@ -647,10 +647,10 @@ static inline __alloc_size(1, 2) void *kmalloc_array(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_
  * @new_size: new size of a single member of the array
  * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc)
  */
-static inline __alloc_size(2, 3) void * __must_check krealloc_array(void *p,
-								    size_t new_n,
-								    size_t new_size,
-								    gfp_t flags)
+static inline __realloc_size(2, 3) void * __must_check krealloc_array(void *p,
+								      size_t new_n,
+								      size_t new_size,
+								      gfp_t flags)
 {
 	size_t bytes;
 
@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ static inline __alloc_size(1, 2) void *kvcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t fla
 }
 
 extern void *kvrealloc(const void *p, size_t oldsize, size_t newsize, gfp_t flags)
-		      __alloc_size(3);
+		      __realloc_size(3);
 extern void kvfree(const void *addr);
 extern void kvfree_sensitive(const void *addr, size_t len);