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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 13:57:00 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
Syed Rameez Mustafa <rameezmustafa@...eaurora.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] bug: Provide toggle for BUG on
data corruption
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 01:42:55PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-08-17 at 14:42 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > This adds CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION to trigger BUG()s when the
> > kernel
> > encounters unexpected data structure integrity as currently detected
> > with CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST.
> >
> > Specifically list operations have been a target for widening flaws to
> > gain
> > "write anywhere" primitives for attackers, so this also consolidates
> > the
> > debug checking to avoid code and check duplication (e.g. RCU list
> > debug
> > was missing a check that got added to regular list debug). It also
> > stops
> > manipulations when corruption is detected, since worsening the
> > corruption
> > makes no sense. (Really, everyone should build with CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST
> > since the checks are so inexpensive.)
> >
> > This is mostly a refactoring of similar code from PaX and Grsecurity,
> > along with MSM kernel changes by Syed Rameez Mustafa.
> >
> > Along with the patches is a new lkdtm test to validate that setting
> > CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST actually does what is desired.
>
> Series looks good to me, too.
Reviewed-by? Acked-by? Ephemeral accolades? ;-)
Thanx, Paul
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