mm/page_poison.c: enable PAGE_POISONING as a separate option
authorLaura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Tue, 15 Mar 2016 21:56:27 +0000 (14:56 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 15 Mar 2016 23:55:16 +0000 (16:55 -0700)
commit8823b1dbc05fab1a8bec275eeae4709257c2661d
treea7d6683189c1656ac0879a0a7e9f39c695abfeee
parentff8e81163889ac4c7f59e7f7db6377d0c5d8d69c
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 <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: 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>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
include/linux/mm.h
mm/Kconfig.debug
mm/Makefile
mm/debug-pagealloc.c [deleted file]
mm/page_alloc.c
mm/page_poison.c [new file with mode: 0644]