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| author | Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> | 2020-08-07 09:18:45 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-07 21:33:22 +0300 |
| commit | 060807f841ac94d3826ce6fa3b4f3831cd0c015b (patch) | |
| tree | 7fb9985e561e2d1ae304ca222c250ca9eab1654d /Documentation/vm | |
| parent | 32a6f409b6935d175464f26d31250ea13fda6b66 (diff) | |
| download | linux-060807f841ac94d3826ce6fa3b4f3831cd0c015b.tar.xz | |
mm, slub: make remaining slub_debug related attributes read-only
SLUB_DEBUG creates several files under /sys/kernel/slab/<cache>/ that can
be read to check if the respective debugging options are enabled for given
cache. Some options, namely sanity_checks, trace, and failslab can be
also enabled and disabled at runtime by writing into the files.
The runtime toggling is racy. Some options disable __CMPXCHG_DOUBLE when
enabled, which means that in case of concurrent allocations, some can
still use __CMPXCHG_DOUBLE and some not, leading to potential corruption.
The s->flags field is also not updated or checked atomically. The
simplest solution is to remove the runtime toggling. The extended
slub_debug boot parameter syntax introduced by earlier patch should allow
to fine-tune the debugging configuration during boot with same
granularity.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Vijayanand Jitta <vjitta@codeaurora.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200610163135.17364-5-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/slub.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/slub.rst b/Documentation/vm/slub.rst index 36241dfba024..289d231cee97 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/slub.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/slub.rst @@ -116,11 +116,8 @@ options from the ``slub_debug`` parameter translate to the following files:: T trace A failslab -The sanity_checks, trace and failslab files are writable, so writing 1 or 0 -will enable or disable the option at runtime. The writes to trace and failslab -may return -EINVAL if the cache is subject to slab merging. Careful with -tracing: It may spew out lots of information and never stop if used on the -wrong slab. +Careful with tracing: It may spew out lots of information and never stop if +used on the wrong slab. Slab merging ============ |