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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:04:49 +0200
From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-security-module <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>, Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Sandeep Patil <sspatil@...roid.com>, Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: security: introduce CONFIG_INIT_HEAP_ALL
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 10:33 AM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz> wrote:
>
> 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.
We can provide two separate flags for slab and page allocator to avoid this.
I cannot think of a situation where this level of control is necessary
though (apart from benchmarking).
> > + 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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