From 8823b1dbc05fab1a8bec275eeae4709257c2661d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laura Abbott Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 14:56:27 -0700 Subject: mm/page_poison.c: enable PAGE_POISONING as a separate option Page poisoning is currently set up as a feature if architectures don't have architecture debug page_alloc to allow unmapping of pages. It has uses apart from that though. Clearing of the pages on free provides an increase in security as it helps to limit the risk of information leaks. Allow page poisoning to be enabled as a separate option independent of kernel_map pages since the two features do separate work. Because of how hiberanation is implemented, the checks on alloc cannot occur if hibernation is enabled. The runtime alloc checks can also be enabled with an option when !HIBERNATION. Credit to Grsecurity/PaX team for inspiring this work Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Mathias Krause Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Jianyu Zhan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/page_alloc.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c') diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 0691403aed93..2a08349fbab2 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1025,6 +1025,7 @@ static bool free_pages_prepare(struct page *page, unsigned int order) PAGE_SIZE << order); } arch_free_page(page, order); + kernel_poison_pages(page, 1 << order, 0); kernel_map_pages(page, 1 << order, 0); return true; @@ -1420,6 +1421,7 @@ static int prep_new_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order, gfp_t gfp_flags, arch_alloc_page(page, order); kernel_map_pages(page, 1 << order, 1); + kernel_poison_pages(page, 1 << order, 1); kasan_alloc_pages(page, order); if (gfp_flags & __GFP_ZERO) -- cgit v1.2.3