linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/12] mm, slub: disable SYSFS support with CONFIG_SLUB

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Thu, 24 Nov 2022 10:00:38 +0100
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>
Cc:     Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, patches@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] mm, slub: disable SYSFS support with
 CONFIG_SLUB_TINY

On 11/24/22 02:12, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 06:11:53PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> Currently SLUB enables its sysfs support depending unconditionally on
>> the general CONFIG_SYSFS setting. To reduce the configuration
>> combination space, make CONFIG_SLUB_TINY disable SLUB's sysfs support by
>> reusing the existing SLAB_SUPPORTS_SYSFS define. It is unlikely that
>> real tiny systems would combine CONFIG_SLUB_TINY with CONFIG_SYSFS, but
>> a randconfig might.
> 
> Hm, don't we want to introduce CONFIG_SLAB_SYSFS instead?
> I believe many users don't really need it, even if they don't
> need CONFIG_SLUB_TINY and they do have CONFIG_SYSFS.

Dunno, adding more and more config options is generally frowned upon. Also
tools might be using it to get more details than /proc/slabinfo does - i.e.
tools/vm/slabinfo.c

> Thanks!