From ad38b5b1131e2a0e5c46724847da2e1eba31fb68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlastimil Babka Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 23:18:38 -0700 Subject: mm, slub: make some slub_debug related attributes read-only SLUB_DEBUG creates several files under /sys/kernel/slab// that can be read to check if the respective debugging options are enabled for given cache. The options can be also toggled at runtime by writing into the files. Some of those, namely red_zone, poison, and store_user can be toggled only when no objects yet exist in the cache. Vijayanand reports [1] that there is a problem with freelist randomization if changing the debugging option's state results in different number of objects per page, and the random sequence cache needs thus needs to be recomputed. However, another problem is that the check for "no objects yet exist in the cache" is racy, as noted by Jann [2] and fixing that would add overhead or otherwise complicate the allocation/freeing paths. Thus it would be much simpler just to remove the runtime toggling support. The documentation describes it's "In case you forgot to enable debugging on the kernel command line", but the neccessity of having no objects limits its usefulness anyway for many caches. Vijayanand describes an use case [3] where debugging is enabled for all but zram caches for memory overhead reasons, and using the runtime toggles was the only way to achieve such configuration. After the previous patch it's now possible to do that directly from the kernel boot option, so we can remove the dangerous runtime toggles by making the /sys attribute files read-only. While updating it, also improve the documentation of the debugging /sys files. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1580379523-32272-1-git-send-email-vjitta@codeaurora.org [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAG48ez31PP--h6_FzVyfJ4H86QYczAFPdxtJHUEEan+7VJETAQ@mail.gmail.com [3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/1383cd32-1ddc-4dac-b5f8-9c42282fa81c@codeaurora.org Reported-by: Vijayanand Jitta Reported-by: Jann Horn Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Roman Gushchin Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Pekka Enberg Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200610163135.17364-3-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/slub.c | 46 +++------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/slub.c') diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 829985d7c7c5..fd0b196fdaaf 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -5335,61 +5335,21 @@ static ssize_t red_zone_show(struct kmem_cache *s, char *buf) return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", !!(s->flags & SLAB_RED_ZONE)); } -static ssize_t red_zone_store(struct kmem_cache *s, - const char *buf, size_t length) -{ - if (any_slab_objects(s)) - return -EBUSY; - - s->flags &= ~SLAB_RED_ZONE; - if (buf[0] == '1') { - s->flags |= SLAB_RED_ZONE; - } - calculate_sizes(s, -1); - return length; -} -SLAB_ATTR(red_zone); +SLAB_ATTR_RO(red_zone); static ssize_t poison_show(struct kmem_cache *s, char *buf) { return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", !!(s->flags & SLAB_POISON)); } -static ssize_t poison_store(struct kmem_cache *s, - const char *buf, size_t length) -{ - if (any_slab_objects(s)) - return -EBUSY; - - s->flags &= ~SLAB_POISON; - if (buf[0] == '1') { - s->flags |= SLAB_POISON; - } - calculate_sizes(s, -1); - return length; -} -SLAB_ATTR(poison); +SLAB_ATTR_RO(poison); static ssize_t store_user_show(struct kmem_cache *s, char *buf) { return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", !!(s->flags & SLAB_STORE_USER)); } -static ssize_t store_user_store(struct kmem_cache *s, - const char *buf, size_t length) -{ - if (any_slab_objects(s)) - return -EBUSY; - - s->flags &= ~SLAB_STORE_USER; - if (buf[0] == '1') { - s->flags &= ~__CMPXCHG_DOUBLE; - s->flags |= SLAB_STORE_USER; - } - calculate_sizes(s, -1); - return length; -} -SLAB_ATTR(store_user); +SLAB_ATTR_RO(store_user); static ssize_t validate_show(struct kmem_cache *s, char *buf) { -- cgit v1.2.3