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Re: [x86/uaccess] 5b710f34e1: kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:75!

From Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [x86/uaccess] 5b710f34e1: kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:75!
Date 2016-08-18 00:00 +0200
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Linus Torvalds
>>
>> Networking does, but seems to use __GFP_COMP, at least in the one case
>> I checked (skbuff).
>
> Was this allocation really through kmalloc?

The networking one I looked at, no. But they do __GFP_COMP.

The task struct allocation generally is (alloc_task_struct_node()),
but as Rik pointed out, SLOB doesn't actually necessarily do the slab
book-keeping for multi-page allocations.

               Linus

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Re: [x86/uaccess] 5b710f34e1: kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:75! Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-17 18:20 +0200
  Re: [x86/uaccess] 5b710f34e1: kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:75! Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-08-17 23:30 +0200
    Re: [x86/uaccess] 5b710f34e1: kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:75! Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-08-17 23:40 +0200
    Re: [x86/uaccess] 5b710f34e1: kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:75! Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-17 23:40 +0200
  Re: [x86/uaccess] 5b710f34e1: kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:75! Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> - 2016-08-17 23:50 +0200
    Re: [x86/uaccess] 5b710f34e1: kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:75! Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-18 00:00 +0200
      Re: [x86/uaccess] 5b710f34e1: kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:75! Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-08-18 00:00 +0200
        Re: [x86/uaccess] 5b710f34e1: kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:75! Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-18 00:00 +0200
          Re: [x86/uaccess] 5b710f34e1: kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:75! Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-08-18 00:00 +0200
    Re: [x86/uaccess] 5b710f34e1: kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:75! Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-08-18 00:00 +0200
    Re: [x86/uaccess] 5b710f34e1: kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:75! Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-18 00:00 +0200
    Re: [x86/uaccess] 5b710f34e1: kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:75! Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-08-18 00:00 +0200

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