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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 /include/linux/mm.h
parent8823b1dbc05fab1a8bec275eeae4709257c2661d (diff)
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>
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diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 99dcc8f36e28..b97243d6aa49 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2179,10 +2179,12 @@ extern int apply_to_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING
extern bool page_poisoning_enabled(void);
extern void kernel_poison_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable);
+extern bool page_is_poisoned(struct page *page);
#else
static inline bool page_poisoning_enabled(void) { return false; }
static inline void kernel_poison_pages(struct page *page, int numpages,
int enable) { }
+static inline bool page_is_poisoned(struct page *page) { return false; }
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC