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| author | Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org> | 2021-06-29 05:34:52 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-06-29 20:53:47 +0300 |
| commit | 792702911f581f7793962fbeb99d5c3a1b28f4c3 (patch) | |
| tree | d5a5a1ba95e9e6c14e3390db40533f99346be378 /include | |
| parent | 582d1212edc73e6459d5219a24f312799877b61e (diff) | |
| download | linux-792702911f581f7793962fbeb99d5c3a1b28f4c3.tar.xz | |
slub: force on no_hash_pointers when slub_debug is enabled
Obscuring the pointers that slub shows when debugging makes for some
confusing slub debug messages:
Padding overwritten. 0x0000000079f0674a-0x000000000d4dce17
Those addresses are hashed for kernel security reasons. If we're trying
to be secure with slub_debug on the commandline we have some big problems
given that we dump whole chunks of kernel memory to the kernel logs.
Let's force on the no_hash_pointers commandline flag when slub_debug is on
the commandline. This makes slub debug messages more meaningful and if by
chance a kernel address is in some slub debug object dump we will have a
better chance of figuring out what went wrong.
Note that we don't use %px in the slub code because we want to reduce the
number of places that %px is used in the kernel. This also nicely prints
a big fat warning at kernel boot if slub_debug is on the commandline so
that we know that this kernel shouldn't be used on production systems.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=n]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210601182202.3011020-5-swboyd@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kernel.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index 15d8bad3d2f2..bf950621febf 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -357,6 +357,8 @@ int sscanf(const char *, const char *, ...); extern __scanf(2, 0) int vsscanf(const char *, const char *, va_list); +extern int no_hash_pointers_enable(char *str); + extern int get_option(char **str, int *pint); extern char *get_options(const char *str, int nints, int *ints); extern unsigned long long memparse(const char *ptr, char **retptr); |