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kzalloc/kmalloc will round up the request size to a fixed size (mostly power of 2), so the allocated memory could be more than requested. Currently kzalloc family APIs will zero all the allocated memory. To detect out-of-bound usage of the extra allocated memory, only zero the requested part, so that redzone sanity check could be added to the extra space later. For kzalloc users who will call ksize() later and utilize this extra space, please be aware that the space is not zeroed any more when debug is enabled. (Thanks to Kees Cook's effort to sanitize all ksize() user cases [1], this won't be a big issue). [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220922031013.2150682-1-keescook@chromium.org/#r Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Acked-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.