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Re: [PATCH 04/20] ipc: Drop non-RCU allocation

From Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 04/20] ipc: Drop non-RCU allocation
Date 2017-05-25 21:40 +0200
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On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Manfred Spraul
<manfred@colorfullife.com> wrote:
> The only users of ipc_alloc() were ipc_rcu_alloc() and the on-heap
> sem_io fall-back memory. Better to just open-code these to make things
> easier to read.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>
> [manfred@colorfullife.com: Rediff due to inclusion of memset() into
> ipc_rcu_alloc().]

Oh! I see, the hunk snuck into this patch, rather that patch 3.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security

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[PATCH 0/20 V3] Misc cleanups for ipc Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> - 2017-05-25 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH 05/20] ipc/sem: Do not use ipc_rcu_free() Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> - 2017-05-25 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH 08/20] ipc/util: Drop ipc_rcu_free() Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> - 2017-05-25 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH 15/20] ipc/msg.c: Avoid ipc_rcu_putref for failed ipc_addid() Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> - 2017-05-25 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH 19/20] ipc/sem: Drop __sem_free() Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> - 2017-05-25 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH 20/20] ipc/util.h: Update documentation for ipc_getref() and ipc_putref() Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> - 2017-05-25 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH 09/20] ipc/sem: Avoid ipc_rcu_alloc() Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> - 2017-05-25 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH 17/20] ipc/shm: Remove special shm_alloc/free Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> - 2017-05-25 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH 11/20] ipc/msg: Avoid ipc_rcu_alloc() Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> - 2017-05-25 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH 12/20] ipc/util: Drop ipc_rcu_alloc() Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> - 2017-05-25 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH 16/20] ipc: Move atomic_set() to where it is needed Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> - 2017-05-25 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH 04/20] ipc: Drop non-RCU allocation Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> - 2017-05-25 21:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 04/20] ipc: Drop non-RCU allocation Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-05-25 21:40 +0200
  [PATCH 03/20] include/linux/sem.h: Correctly document sem_ctime Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> - 2017-05-25 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH 07/20] ipc/msg: Do not use ipc_rcu_free() Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> - 2017-05-25 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH 10/20] ipc/shm: Avoid ipc_rcu_alloc() Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> - 2017-05-25 21:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/20 V3] Misc cleanups for ipc Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-05-25 21:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/20 V3] Misc cleanups for ipc Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> - 2017-05-26 04:00 +0200

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