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mm, vmstat: hide /proc/pagetypeinfo from normal users
authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Wed, 6 Nov 2019 05:16:40 +0000 (21:16 -0800)
committerStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Tue, 26 Nov 2019 12:16:05 +0000 (13:16 +0100)
commit43bc0c0a135c7ac0878c3d83170761ce47d9b990
tree959d6003e5de2cf63e018923f670c95902e2ba22
parent95bb9fd78d1681290db7c09d3d623ccc3bf077ad
mm, vmstat: hide /proc/pagetypeinfo from normal users

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1853519
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 <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
mm/vmstat.c