Commit c491eae8 authored by Jesper Dangaard Brouer's avatar Jesper Dangaard Brouer Committed by David S. Miller

xdp: remove memory poison on free for struct xdp_mem_allocator

When looking at the details I realised that the memory poison in
__xdp_mem_allocator_rcu_free doesn't make sense. This is because the
SLUB allocator uses the first 16 bytes (on 64 bit), for its freelist,
which overlap with members in struct xdp_mem_allocator, that were
updated.  Thus, SLUB already does the "poisoning" for us.

I still believe that poisoning memory make sense in other cases.
Kernel have gained different use-after-free detection mechanism, but
enabling those is associated with a huge overhead. Experience is that
debugging facilities can change the timing so much, that that a race
condition will not be provoked when enabled. Thus, I'm still in favour
of poisoning memory where it makes sense.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent b95e86d8
......@@ -73,11 +73,6 @@ static void __xdp_mem_allocator_rcu_free(struct rcu_head *rcu)
/* Allow this ID to be reused */
ida_simple_remove(&mem_id_pool, xa->mem.id);
/* Poison memory */
xa->mem.id = 0xFFFF;
xa->mem.type = 0xF0F0;
xa->allocator = (void *)0xDEAD9001;
kfree(xa);
}
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