On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 07:50:52AM +0100, Mohammed EL Kadiri wrote: > Add SLAB_NO_MERGE to key_jar to prevent the allocator from merging it > with other similarly-sized caches. This hardens struct key isolation by > ensuring dedicated slab pages. > > Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Mohammed EL Kadiri <[email protected]> > --- > security/keys/key.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/security/keys/key.c b/security/keys/key.c > index 3bbdde778631..592b65cf8539 100644 > --- a/security/keys/key.c > +++ b/security/keys/key.c > @@ -1275,7 +1275,7 @@ void __init key_init(void) > { > /* allocate a slab in which we can store keys */ > key_jar = kmem_cache_create("key_jar", sizeof(struct key), > - 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, NULL); > + 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_PANIC | SLAB_NO_MERGE, > NULL); > > /* add the special key types */ > list_add_tail(&key_type_keyring.link, &key_types_list); > -- > 2.43.0 >
I swapped the commit. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd.git/log/?h=for-next-keys BR, Jarkko

