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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 10:30:20 +0200
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
ndesaulniers@...gle.com, kcc@...gle.com, dvyukov@...gle.com,
keescook@...omium.org, sspatil@...roid.com, labbott@...hat.com,
kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: security: introduce CONFIG_INIT_HEAP_ALL
On 4/12/19 2:45 PM, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> +config INIT_HEAP_ALL
> + bool "Initialize kernel heap allocations"
Calling slab and page allocations together as "heap" is rather uncommon
in the kernel I think. But I don't have a better word right now.
> + default n
> + help
> + Enforce initialization of pages allocated from page allocator
> + and objects returned by kmalloc and friends.
> + Allocated memory is initialized with zeroes, preventing possible
> + information leaks and making the control-flow bugs that depend
> + on uninitialized values more deterministic.
> +
> config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_VERBOSE
> bool "Report forcefully initialized variables"
> depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
>
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