Re: [PATCH 0/3] linux-next: mm: hardening: Track genalloc allocations

2018-04-29 Thread Igor Stoppa
oops, sorry, I forgot the references :-( On 29/04/18 20:39, Igor Stoppa wrote: On 29/04/18 07:09, Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 06:45:39AM +0400, Igor Stoppa wrote: This patchset was created as part of an older version of pmalloc, however it has value per-se, as it hardens t

Re: [PATCH 0/3] linux-next: mm: hardening: Track genalloc allocations

2018-04-29 Thread Igor Stoppa
On 29/04/18 07:09, Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 06:45:39AM +0400, Igor Stoppa wrote: This patchset was created as part of an older version of pmalloc, however it has value per-se, as it hardens the memory management for the generic allocator genalloc. Genalloc does not curren

Re: [PATCH 0/3] linux-next: mm: hardening: Track genalloc allocations

2018-04-28 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 06:45:39AM +0400, Igor Stoppa wrote: > This patchset was created as part of an older version of pmalloc, however > it has value per-se, as it hardens the memory management for the generic > allocator genalloc. > > Genalloc does not currently track the size of the allocation

[PATCH 0/3] linux-next: mm: hardening: Track genalloc allocations

2018-04-28 Thread Igor Stoppa
This patchset was created as part of an older version of pmalloc, however it has value per-se, as it hardens the memory management for the generic allocator genalloc. Genalloc does not currently track the size of the allocations it hands out. Either by mistake, or due to an attack, it is possible