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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 21:48:01 +0100
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To: Laura Abbott <laura@...bott.name>, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/7] mm/slab_common.c: Add common support for slab
saniziation
On 22.12.2015 4:40, Laura Abbott wrote:
> Each of the different allocators (SLAB/SLUB/SLOB) handles
> clearing of objects differently depending on configuration.
> Add common infrastructure for selecting sanitization levels
> (off, slow path only, partial, full) and marking caches as
> appropriate.
>
> All credit for the original work should be given to Brad Spengler and
> the PaX Team.
>
> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <laura@...bott.name>
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SLAB_MEMORY_SANITIZE
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> +#define SLAB_MEMORY_SANITIZE_VALUE '\xfe'
> +#else
> +#define SLAB_MEMORY_SANITIZE_VALUE '\xff'
> +#endif
> +enum slab_sanitize_mode {
> + /* No sanitization */
> + SLAB_SANITIZE_OFF = 0,
> +
> + /* Partial sanitization happens only on the slow path */
> + SLAB_SANITIZE_PARTIAL_SLOWPATH = 1,
Can you explain more about this variant? I wonder who might find it useful
except someone getting a false sense of security, but cheaper.
It sounds like wanting the cake and eat it too :)
I would be surprised if such IMHO half-solution existed in the original
PAX_MEMORY_SANITIZE too?
Or is there something that guarantees that the objects freed on hotpath won't
stay there for long so the danger of leak is low? (And what about
use-after-free?) It depends on further slab activity, no? (I'm not that familiar
with SLUB, but I would expect the hotpath there being similar to SLAB freeing
the object on per-cpu array_cache. But, it seems the PARTIAL_SLOWPATH is not
implemented for SLAB, so there might be some fundamental difference I'm missing.)
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