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* ANDROID: lib: vsprintf: additional kernel pointer filtering optionsDave Weinstein2019-05-051-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the kptr_restrict setting of 3 which results in both %p and %pK values being replaced by zeros. Add an additional %pP value inspired by the Grsecurity option which explicitly whitelists pointers for output. This patch is based on work by William Roberts <william.c.roberts@intel.com> [CV: fixed GCC warning on 32 bit targets] BUG: 30368199 Change-Id: Ic5cef86617f7758514271edd67199683d2c4e2bb Signed-off-by: Dave Weinstein <olorin@google.com>
* mm: disable zone_reclaim_mode by defaultMel Gorman2017-05-241-8/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When it was introduced, zone_reclaim_mode made sense as NUMA distances punished and workloads were generally partitioned to fit into a NUMA node. NUMA machines are now common but few of the workloads are NUMA-aware and it's routine to see major performance degradation due to zone_reclaim_mode being enabled but relatively few can identify the problem. Those that require zone_reclaim_mode are likely to be able to detect when it needs to be enabled and tune appropriately so lets have a sensible default for the bulk of users. This patch (of 2): zone_reclaim_mode causes processes to prefer reclaiming memory from local node instead of spilling over to other nodes. This made sense initially when NUMA machines were almost exclusively HPC and the workload was partitioned into nodes. The NUMA penalties were sufficiently high to justify reclaiming the memory. On current machines and workloads it is often the case that zone_reclaim_mode destroys performance but not all users know how to detect this. Favour the common case and disable it by default. Users that are sophisticated enough to know they need zone_reclaim_mode will detect it. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
* FROMLIST: mm: mmap: Add new /proc tunable for mmap_base ASLR.dcashman2016-09-101-0/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (cherry picked from commit https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/21/337) ASLR only uses as few as 8 bits to generate the random offset for the mmap base address on 32 bit architectures. This value was chosen to prevent a poorly chosen value from dividing the address space in such a way as to prevent large allocations. This may not be an issue on all platforms. Allow the specification of a minimum number of bits so that platforms desiring greater ASLR protection may determine where to place the trade-off. Bug: 24047224 Signed-off-by: Daniel Cashman <dcashman@android.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Cashman <dcashman@google.com> Change-Id: I66ac01c6f4f2c8dcfc84d1f1e99490b8385b3ed4
* FROMLIST: security,perf: Allow further restriction of perf_event_openJeff Vander Stoep2016-09-101-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When kernel.perf_event_open is set to 3 (or greater), disallow all access to performance events by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN. Add a Kconfig symbol CONFIG_SECURITY_PERF_EVENTS_RESTRICT that makes this value the default. This is based on a similar feature in grsecurity (CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PERF_HARDEN). This version doesn't include making the variable read-only. It also allows enabling further restriction at run-time regardless of whether the default is changed. https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/11/587 Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Bug: 29054680 Change-Id: Iff5bff4fc1042e85866df9faa01bce8d04335ab8
* BACKPORT: perf tools: Document the perf sysctlsBen Hutchings2016-09-101-14/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | perf_event_paranoid was only documented in source code and a perf error message. Copy the documentation from the error message to Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160119213515.GG2637@decadent.org.uk [ Remove reference to external Documentation file, provide info inline, as before ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Bug: 29054680 Change-Id: I13e73cfb2ad761c94762d0c8196df7725abdf5c5
* 3.10.102-> 3.10.103Jan Engelmohr2016-09-101-0/+23
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* first commitMeizu OpenSource2016-08-158-0/+2120