Re: [PATCH] mm/mempool: Avoid KASAN marking mempool posion checks as use-after-free

From: Andrey Ryabinin
Date: Thu Mar 10 2016 - 08:56:03 EST


On 03/09/2016 09:16 AM, Matthew Dawson wrote:
> When removing an element from the mempool, mark it as unpoisoned in KASAN
> before verifying its contents for SLUB/SLAB debugging. Otherwise KASAN
> will flag the reads checking the element use-after-free writes as
> use-after-free reads.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Dawson <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>