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| author | Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> | 2019-10-14 14:11:44 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-10-14 15:04:00 -0700 |
| commit | 0fe9a448a029a11d7211fcc2ebe9023d7fd31792 (patch) | |
| tree | a516a11ebf5dda36d09ae695b126720d35d9626c /Documentation | |
| parent | 5556cfe8d994d5e7b4d50fd91597b8dc0b3a82fd (diff) | |
mm, page_owner: decouple freeing stack trace from debug_pagealloc
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst index b72d07d70239..525296121d89 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst @@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ smaller binary while the latter is 1.1 - 2 times faster. Both KASAN modes work with both SLUB and SLAB memory allocators. For better bug detection and nicer reporting, enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE. +To augment reports with last allocation and freeing stack of the physical page, +it is recommended to enable also CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER and boot with page_owner=on. + To disable instrumentation for specific files or directories, add a line similar to the following to the respective kernel Makefile: |