mm: don't let userspace spam allocations warnings
authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 06:20:42 +0000 (22:20 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:01:01 +0000 (09:01 -0800)
commit6c8fcc096be9d02f478c508052a41a4430506ab3
tree5de75352c94c318dc80a70a6598e09a986f9f962
parent6373dca16c911b2828ef8d836d7f6f1800e1bbbc
mm: don't let userspace spam allocations warnings

memdump_user usually gets fed unchecked userspace input.  Blasting a
full backtrace into dmesg every time is a bit excessive - I'm not sure
on the kernel rule in general, but at least in drm we're trying not to
let unpriviledge userspace spam the logs freely.  Definitely not entire
warning backtraces.

It also means more filtering for our CI, because our testsuite exercises
these corner cases and so hits these a lot.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190220204058.11676-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/util.c