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2019-10-14mm, page_owner: decouple freeing stack trace from debug_pageallocVlastimil Babka1-0/+3
Commit 8974558f49a6 ("mm, page_owner, debug_pagealloc: save and dump freeing stack trace") enhanced page_owner to also store freeing stack trace, when debug_pagealloc is also enabled. KASAN would also like to do this [1] to improve error reports to debug e.g. UAF issues. Kirill has suggested that the freeing stack trace saving should be also possible to be enabled separately from KASAN or debug_pagealloc, i.e. with an extra boot option. Qian argued that we have enough options already, and avoiding the extra overhead is not worth the complications in the case of a debugging option. Kirill noted that the extra stack handle in struct page_owner requires 0.1% of memory. This patch therefore enables free stack saving whenever page_owner is enabled, regardless of whether debug_pagealloc or KASAN is also enabled. KASAN kernels booted with page_owner=on will thus benefit from the improved error reports. [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203967 [vbabka@suse.cz: v3] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191007091808.7096-3-vbabka@suse.cz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190930122916.14969-3-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Suggested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Suggested-by: Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@mediatek.com> Suggested-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Suggested-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-12-28kasan: update documentationAndrey Konovalov1-94/+138
This patch updates KASAN documentation to reflect the addition of the new tag-based mode. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/aabef9de317c54b8a3919a4946ce534c6576726a.1544099024.git.andreyknvl@google.com Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-16docs/vm: rename documentation files to .rstMike Rapoport1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-08-19Merge branch 'dev-tools' into doc/4.9Jonathan Corbet1-0/+173
Coalesce development-tool documents into a single directory and sphinxify them.
2016-08-18docs: sphinxify kasan.txt and move to dev-toolsJonathan Corbet1-0/+173
No textual changes beyond formatting. Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>