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Alexander Potapenko
0f181f9fbe
slab_alloc_node() already zeroed out the freelist pointer if
init_on_free was on. Thibaut Sautereau noticed that the same needs to
be done for kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(), which performs the allocations
separately.
kmem_cache_alloc_bulk() is currently used in two places in the kernel,
so this change is unlikely to have a major performance impact.
SLAB doesn't require a similar change, as auto-initialization makes the
allocator store the freelist pointers off-slab.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191007091605.30530-1-glider@google.com
Fixes: 6471384af2 ("mm: security: introduce init_on_alloc=1 and init_on_free=1 boot options")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Reported-by: Thibaut Sautereau <thibaut@sautereau.fr>
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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