mm, vmstat: hide /proc/pagetypeinfo from normal users
authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Wed, 6 Nov 2019 05:16:40 +0000 (21:16 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 12 Nov 2019 18:20:36 +0000 (19:20 +0100)
commit6c944fc51f0a798071967288144c9f9859864259
treec48cb543bad8b137815bf5b0762f39cfe01b752b
parent2686f71fdcc5533bb5cecda8caeff5fedb6f1da1
mm, vmstat: hide /proc/pagetypeinfo from normal users

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>
mm/vmstat.c