linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mm, vmstat: hide /proc/pagetypeinfo from normal users

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Message-ID: <20191023151005.GE22601@optiplex-lnx>
Date:   Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:10:05 -0400
From:   Rafael Aquini <aquini@...hat.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mm, vmstat: hide /proc/pagetypeinfo from normal
 users

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 12:27:36PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> 
> /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.
> 
> Reported-by: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
> Cc: stable
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> ---
>  mm/vmstat.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> 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
> -- 
> 2.20.1
>
 
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@...hat.com>