mm/slub: only zero requested size of buffer for kzalloc when debug enabled
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/#rSigned-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>
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