From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF859C17445 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 19:02:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8587222CE for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 19:02:32 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1573498952; bh=07Q+lzMyYk4HtvmcIj0qU3vfd9YyAh8FYBnRoE5cFiI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:List-ID:From; b=p6YjT4KEHyL2bzoSXs6htUDnvTOZXKY9P1niQCH6q0kdzxFDx9937UUgOUNlS9AB2 ECbkKE1eTAdhB+MCNC8cPeMlcHkpSKS+BidIEeGANCOtlG5ZhNfZtuoWpGUDPd9n3I 6VpV0AFYzUvZXuuh0nJFCeJvlLGd0H3JuTYx6B8A= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727941AbfKKSsx (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:48:53 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:42008 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727341AbfKKSsw (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:48:52 -0500 Received: from localhost (83-86-89-107.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4F73721655; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 18:48:50 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1573498130; bh=07Q+lzMyYk4HtvmcIj0qU3vfd9YyAh8FYBnRoE5cFiI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=Zu4h8dgZcQ/6T9V8jJ5wfcAg5qfoVYUVvNMPqyIure6A0uTUrFJUKRokO2iGPW/37 f+l8qMM4xK+nbcAznBysNLXghEBGM4p5IrOPlCidwzk8vEDh9mIuuvYXC01dLVzG6+ CMduEHQn/6LRwYkXAq1U6FsHBhmNNdLZYa6U5r3w= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Michal Hocko , Waiman Long , Mel Gorman , Vlastimil Babka , Rafael Aquini , David Rientjes , Andrew Morton , David Hildenbrand , Johannes Weiner , Roman Gushchin , Konstantin Khlebnikov , Jann Horn , Song Liu , Linus Torvalds Subject: [PATCH 5.3 032/193] mm, vmstat: hide /proc/pagetypeinfo from normal users Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 19:26:54 +0100 Message-Id: <20191111181502.739487567@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.24.0 In-Reply-To: <20191111181459.850623879@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20191111181459.850623879@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org From: Michal Hocko commit abaed0112c1db08be15a784a2c5c8a8b3063cdd3 upstream. /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 Reported-by: Waiman Long Acked-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Waiman Long Acked-by: Rafael Aquini Acked-by: David Rientjes Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Song Liu Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/vmstat.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -1970,7 +1970,7 @@ 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