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authorLaura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>2016-03-15 14:56:30 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-15 16:55:16 -0700
commit1414c7f4f7d72d138fff35f00151d15749b5beda (patch)
treee742e525f02ae4095e2a907cf8bc5fc29bfbc3dc /mm/page_poison.c
parent8823b1dbc05fab1a8bec275eeae4709257c2661d (diff)
downloadlinux-1414c7f4f7d72d138fff35f00151d15749b5beda.tar.bz2
mm/page_poisoning.c: allow for zero poisoning
By default, page poisoning uses a poison value (0xaa) on free. If this is changed to 0, the page is not only sanitized but zeroing on alloc with __GFP_ZERO can be skipped as well. The tradeoff is that detecting corruption from the poisoning is harder to detect. This feature also cannot be used with hibernation since pages are not guaranteed to be zeroed after hibernation. Credit to Grsecurity/PaX team for inspiring this work Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_poison.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_poison.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_poison.c b/mm/page_poison.c
index 89d3bc773633..479e7ea2bea6 100644
--- a/mm/page_poison.c
+++ b/mm/page_poison.c
@@ -71,11 +71,14 @@ static inline void clear_page_poison(struct page *page)
__clear_bit(PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_POISON, &page_ext->flags);
}
-static inline bool page_poison(struct page *page)
+bool page_is_poisoned(struct page *page)
{
struct page_ext *page_ext;
page_ext = lookup_page_ext(page);
+ if (!page_ext)
+ return false;
+
return test_bit(PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_POISON, &page_ext->flags);
}
@@ -137,7 +140,7 @@ static void unpoison_page(struct page *page)
{
void *addr;
- if (!page_poison(page))
+ if (!page_is_poisoned(page))
return;
addr = kmap_atomic(page);