From 9ed9cac1850a2a55674b4a17100c50b46f645921 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 13:28:07 -0700 Subject: 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 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 Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Cc: Marco Elver Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka --- mm/slab_common.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/slab_common.c') diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c index ccc02573588f..023dc0451d16 100644 --- a/mm/slab_common.c +++ b/mm/slab_common.c @@ -1150,8 +1150,8 @@ module_init(slab_proc_init); #endif /* CONFIG_SLAB || CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG */ -static __always_inline void *__do_krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, - gfp_t flags) +static __always_inline __realloc_size(2) void * +__do_krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags) { void *ret; size_t ks; -- cgit v1.2.3