Re: [PATCH] slub: choose the right freelist pointer location when creating small caches

[Lin, Zhenpeng]

Yes, that should be enabled to trigger. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 7:01 PM
To: "Lin, Zhenpeng" <zplin@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>, David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>, "linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx" <linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx>, "linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: choose the right freelist pointer location when creating small caches

    On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 08:20:31PM +0000, Lin, Zhenpeng wrote:
    > Sounds good. But I would suggest this to go to -stable as soon as possible. Because this bug is affecting the basic functionality of DCCP. It crashes kernel whenever a new socket in this module is created.

    But only when redzoning is enabled, yes?

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    Kees Cook