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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 22:53:18 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To: paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] bug: Provide toggle for BUG
on data corruption
On Thu, 2016-08-18 at 13:57 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 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? ;-)
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
works, but I saw you already committed the series to
your tree, and was not sure you would add more reviews :)
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