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>
This commit is contained in:
Vlastimil Babka
2020-08-06 23:18:45 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 32a6f409b6
commit 060807f841
2 changed files with 5 additions and 64 deletions

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@@ -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
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