On 8/11/22 10:59, Imran Khan wrote: > By default kfence allocation can happen for any slab object, whose size > is up to PAGE_SIZE, as long as that allocation is the first allocation > after expiration of kfence sample interval. But in certain debugging > scenarios we may be interested in debugging corruptions involving > some specific slub objects like dentry or ext4_* etc. In such cases > limiting kfence for allocations involving only specific slub objects > will increase the probablity of catching the issue since kfence pool > will not be consumed by other slab objects. > > This patch introduces a sysfs interface '/sys/kernel/slab/<name>/skip_kfence' > to disable kfence for specific slabs. Having the interface work in this > way does not impact current/default behavior of kfence and allows us to > use kfence for specific slabs (when needed) as well. The decision to > skip/use kfence is taken depending on whether kmem_cache.flags has > (newly introduced) SLAB_SKIP_KFENCE flag set or not. > > Signed-off-by: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Nit below: > --- > > Changes since v1: > - Remove RFC tag > > include/linux/slab.h | 6 ++++++ > mm/kfence/core.c | 7 +++++++ > mm/slub.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 3 files changed, 40 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h > index 0fefdf528e0d..947d912fd08c 100644 > --- a/include/linux/slab.h > +++ b/include/linux/slab.h > @@ -119,6 +119,12 @@ > */ > #define SLAB_NO_USER_FLAGS ((slab_flags_t __force)0x10000000U) > > +#ifdef CONFIG_KFENCE > +#define SLAB_SKIP_KFENCE ((slab_flags_t __force)0x20000000U) > +#else > +#define SLAB_SKIP_KFENCE 0 > +#endif The whitespace here (spaces) differs from other flags above (tabs).
