From 32a6f409b6935d175464f26d31250ea13fda6b66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlastimil Babka Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 23:18:41 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm, slub: remove runtime allocation order changes SLUB allows runtime changing of page allocation order by writing into the /sys/kernel/slab//order file. Jann has reported [1] that this interface allows the order to be set too small, leading to crashes. While it's possible to fix the immediate issue, closer inspection reveals potential races. Storing the new order calls calculate_sizes() which non-atomically updates a lot of kmem_cache fields while the cache is still in use. Unexpected behavior might occur even if the fields are set to the same value as they were. This could be fixed by splitting out the part of calculate_sizes() that depends on forced_order, so that we only update kmem_cache.oo field. This could still race with init_cache_random_seq(), shuffle_freelist(), allocate_slab(). Perhaps it's possible to audit and e.g. add some READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE accesses, it might be easier just to remove the runtime order changes, which is what this patch does. If there are valid usecases for per-cache order setting, we could e.g. extend the boot parameters to do that. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAG48ez31PP--h6_FzVyfJ4H86QYczAFPdxtJHUEEan+7VJETAQ@mail.gmail.com Reported-by: Jann Horn Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Acked-by: Roman Gushchin Cc: Vijayanand Jitta Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Pekka Enberg Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200610163135.17364-4-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/slub.c | 19 +------------------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index fd0b196fdaaf..f03b1073bdcf 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -5095,28 +5095,11 @@ static ssize_t objs_per_slab_show(struct kmem_cache *s, char *buf) } SLAB_ATTR_RO(objs_per_slab); -static ssize_t order_store(struct kmem_cache *s, - const char *buf, size_t length) -{ - unsigned int order; - int err; - - err = kstrtouint(buf, 10, &order); - if (err) - return err; - - if (order > slub_max_order || order < slub_min_order) - return -EINVAL; - - calculate_sizes(s, order); - return length; -} - static ssize_t order_show(struct kmem_cache *s, char *buf) { return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", oo_order(s->oo)); } -SLAB_ATTR(order); +SLAB_ATTR_RO(order); static ssize_t min_partial_show(struct kmem_cache *s, char *buf) {