Bug 12377

Summary: CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG configuration is inconsistent
Product: IPFire Reporter: Peter Müller <peter.mueller>
Component: ---Assignee: Peter Müller <peter.mueller>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: Security    
Priority: Will affect all users    
Version: 2   
Hardware: all   
OS: All   
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 12361    

Description Peter Müller 2020-04-14 15:51:13 UTC
Quote from https://capsule8.com/blog/kernel-configuration-glossary/:

> Significance. Medium
> 
> SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can result in
> significant savings in code size. This also disables SLUB sysfs support.
> /sys/slab will not exist and there will be no support for cache validation etc.

This is currently disabled on aarch64 and armv5tel, I doubt we need this somewhere else.
Comment 1 Peter Müller 2020-06-09 17:46:31 UTC
Is this kind of thing supposed to be turned off or on then?
Comment 3 Peter Müller 2020-06-09 17:51:21 UTC
https://patchwork.ipfire.org/patch/3178/