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Linux kernel heap feng shui in 2022 An article by

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describing the kernel changes that affected exploitation techniques for slab-related vulnerabilities over the last few years. duasynt.com/blog/linux-ker

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I believe the "post 5.0" part should be "post 5.9". Using separate caches for accounting was removed in this patch:

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mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all allocations · torvalds/linux@10befea

Instead of having two sets of kmem_caches: one for system-wide and non-accounted allocations and the second one shared by all accounted allocations, we can use just one. The idea is simple: space ...

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yes that should be post 5.9 up to 5.14. and it applies to kmalloc allocations only, not special caches with SLAB_ACCOUNT. thanks

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Ah, so wrt kmalloc caches: they are not mergeable with non-kmalloc ones ever since 4.16 due to hardened usercopy, and these newer patches only affect whether GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT kmalloc allocations get dispatched into a different set of kmalloc caches than GFP_KERNEL ones. Right?

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(Assuming CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM is enabled.)

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