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mm: vmalloc: only zero-init on vrealloc shrink
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The common case is to grow reallocations, and since init_on_alloc will
have already zeroed the whole allocation, we only need to zero when
shrinking the allocation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250515214217.619685-2-kees@kernel.org
Fixes: a0309fa ("mm: vmalloc: support more granular vrealloc() sizing")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Cc: "Erhard F." <erhard_f@mailbox.org>
Cc: Shung-Hsi Yu <shung-hsi.yu@suse.com>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Kees Cook authored and Andrew Morton committed May 25, 2025
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12 changes: 7 additions & 5 deletions mm/vmalloc.c
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Expand Up @@ -4093,8 +4093,8 @@ void *vrealloc_noprof(const void *p, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
* would be a good heuristic for when to shrink the vm_area?
*/
if (size <= old_size) {
/* Zero out "freed" memory. */
if (want_init_on_free())
/* Zero out "freed" memory, potentially for future realloc. */
if (want_init_on_free() || want_init_on_alloc(flags))
memset((void *)p + size, 0, old_size - size);
vm->requested_size = size;
kasan_poison_vmalloc(p + size, old_size - size);
Expand All @@ -4107,9 +4107,11 @@ void *vrealloc_noprof(const void *p, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
if (size <= alloced_size) {
kasan_unpoison_vmalloc(p + old_size, size - old_size,
KASAN_VMALLOC_PROT_NORMAL);
/* Zero out "alloced" memory. */
if (want_init_on_alloc(flags))
memset((void *)p + old_size, 0, size - old_size);
/*
* No need to zero memory here, as unused memory will have
* already been zeroed at initial allocation time or during
* realloc shrink time.
*/
vm->requested_size = size;
return (void *)p;
}
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