Linus Torvalds fa5c82f4d2 slab.h: disable completely broken overflow handling in flex allocations ...

Commit 69050f8d6d ("treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for
non-scalar types") started using the new allocation helpers, and in the
process showed that they were completely non-working.

The overflow logic in overflows_flex_counter_type() is completely the
wrong way around, and that broke __alloc_flex() completely.  By chance,
the resulting code was then such a mess that clang generated
sufficiently garbage code that objtool warned about it all.  Which made
it somewhat quicker to narrow things down.

While fixing overflows_flex_counter_type() would presumably fix this
all, I'm excising the whole broken overflow logic from __alloc_flex(),
because we don't want that kind of code in basic allocation functions
anyway.

That (no longer) broken overflows_flex_counter_type() thing needs to be
inserted into the actual __set_flex_counter() logic in the unlikely case
that we ever want this at all.  And made conditional.

Fixes: 81cee9166a ("compiler_types: Introduce __flex_counter() and family")
Fixes: 69050f8d6d ("treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types")
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whEd020BYzGTzYrENjD9Z5_82xx6h8HsQvH5xDSnv0=Hw@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2026-02-21 15:12:09 -08:00

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