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authorStephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>2021-06-28 19:34:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-06-29 10:53:47 -0700
commit792702911f581f7793962fbeb99d5c3a1b28f4c3 (patch)
treed5a5a1ba95e9e6c14e3390db40533f99346be378 /include/linux/kernel.h
parentslub: indicate slab_fix() uses printf formats (diff)
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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>
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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);