# Re: \[PATCH 4/7\] Protectable Memory

- From: Matthew Wilcox \<willy@infradead.org\>
- Date: 2018-03-12 19:13:15 
- List: linux-mm
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-mm/2018/03/5225714
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-security-module/2018/02/5193835/t.md

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On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 10:06:17PM +0200, Igor Stoppa wrote:
> struct gen_pool *pmalloc_create_pool(const char *name,
> 					 int min_alloc_order);
> int is_pmalloc_object(const void *ptr, const unsigned long n);
> bool pmalloc_prealloc(struct gen_pool *pool, size_t size);
> void *pmalloc(struct gen_pool *pool, size_t size, gfp_t gfp);
> static inline void *pzalloc(struct gen_pool *pool, size_t size, gfp_t gfp)
> static inline void *pmalloc_array(struct gen_pool *pool, size_t n,
> 				  size_t size, gfp_t flags)
> static inline void *pcalloc(struct gen_pool *pool, size_t n,
> 			    size_t size, gfp_t flags)
> static inline char *pstrdup(struct gen_pool *pool, const char *s, gfp_t gfp)
> int pmalloc_protect_pool(struct gen_pool *pool);
> static inline void pfree(struct gen_pool *pool, const void *addr)
> int pmalloc_destroy_pool(struct gen_pool *pool);

Do you have users for all these functions?  I'm particularly sceptical of
pfree().  To my mind, a user wants to:

pmalloc_create();
pmalloc(); * N
pmalloc_protect();
...
pmalloc_destroy();

I don't mind the pstrdup, pcalloc, pmalloc_array, pzalloc variations, but
I don't know why you need is_pmalloc_object().
```