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5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Vlastimil Babka
0fe9a448a0 mm, page_owner: decouple freeing stack trace from debug_pagealloc
Commit 8974558f49 ("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>
2019-10-14 15:04:00 -07:00
Andrey Konovalov
b3b0e6accb kasan: update documentation
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>
2018-12-28 12:11:44 -08:00
Mike Rapoport
ad56b738c5 docs/vm: rename documentation files to .rst
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16 14:18:15 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
5512128f02 Merge branch 'dev-tools' into doc/4.9
Coalesce development-tool documents into a single directory and sphinxify
them.
2016-08-19 11:38:36 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
2757aafad9 docs: sphinxify kasan.txt and move to dev-tools
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>
2016-08-18 17:41:45 -06:00