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| author |   Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> | 2019-11-05 21:16:40 -0800 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-11-06 08:47:50 -0800 |
| commit | abaed0112c1db08be15a784a2c5c8a8b3063cdd3 (patch) | |
| tree | 844ee0bbda14fe055e6f45e66af79e492157c248 /mm/vmstat.c | |
| parent | mm/mmu_notifiers: use the right return code for WARN_ON (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-abaed0112c1db08be15a784a2c5c8a8b3063cdd3.tar.xz linux-dev-abaed0112c1db08be15a784a2c5c8a8b3063cdd3.zip | |
mm, vmstat: hide /proc/pagetypeinfo from normal users
/proc/pagetypeinfo is a debugging tool to examine internal page
allocator state wrt to fragmentation. It is not very useful for any
other use so normal users really do not need to read this file.
Waiman Long has noticed that reading this file can have negative side
effects because zone->lock is necessary for gathering data and that a)
interferes with the page allocator and its users and b) can lead to hard
lockups on large machines which have very long free_list.
Reduce both issues by simply not exporting the file to regular users.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191025072610.18526-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Fixes: 467c996c1e19 ("Print out statistics in relation to fragmentation avoidance to /proc/pagetypeinfo")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmstat.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmstat.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index 6afc892a148a..4e885ecd44d1 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -1972,7 +1972,7 @@ void __init init_mm_internals(void) #endif #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS proc_create_seq("buddyinfo", 0444, NULL, &fragmentation_op); - proc_create_seq("pagetypeinfo", 0444, NULL, &pagetypeinfo_op); + proc_create_seq("pagetypeinfo", 0400, NULL, &pagetypeinfo_op); proc_create_seq("vmstat", 0444, NULL, &vmstat_op); proc_create_seq("zoneinfo", 0444, NULL, &zoneinfo_op); #endif |