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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>,
	joe@perches.com, kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Use vmemdup_user()
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 19:32:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5db7325-90ee-aee2-413f-9c21f48b50e5@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YMzSM2WAmxpXIHhJ@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On 18/06/21 19:04, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 18-06-21 09:53:53, Jim Mattson wrote:
>> In any case, these allocations *should* be accounted, shouldn't they?
> 
> This is more of a question to maintainers. Are these objects easy to
> request by userspace without any bounds?

This particular one need not be accounted because the allocation only 
lasts for the duration of the ioctl. The allocation below in 
kvm_vcpu_ioctl_set_cpuid

      e2 = kvmalloc_array(cpuid->nent, sizeof(*e2), GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);

is long term and is already accounted for.

kvm_vcpu_ioctl_set_cpuid2 should also use kvmalloc_array and 
GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT.  However, it wasn't doing so before this patch went 
in, either.

Paolo


      reply	other threads:[~2021-06-18 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-30 14:35 [PATCH] KVM: Use previously computed array_size() Denis Efremov
2020-05-30 15:58 ` Joe Perches
2020-05-30 17:28   ` Denis Efremov
2020-06-01  8:46     ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-06-03 10:11   ` [PATCH] KVM: Use vmemdup_user() Denis Efremov
2020-06-04 18:41     ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-18  0:25     ` Jim Mattson
2021-06-18  6:00       ` Michal Hocko
2021-06-18 16:53         ` Jim Mattson
2021-06-18 17:04           ` Michal Hocko
2021-06-18 17:32             ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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