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Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 18:26:22 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, cl@...ux.com,
kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
Sandeep Patil <sspatil@...roid.com>,
Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: security: introduce init_on_alloc=1 and
init_on_free=1 boot options
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 04:35:34PM +0200, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> [...]
> diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
> index 43ac818b8592..24ae887359b8 100644
> --- a/mm/slab.h
> +++ b/mm/slab.h
> @@ -524,4 +524,20 @@ static inline int cache_random_seq_create(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
> [...]
> +static inline bool slab_want_init_on_free(struct kmem_cache *c)
> +{
> + if (static_branch_unlikely(&init_on_free))
> + return !(c->ctor);
BTW, why is this checking for c->ctor here? Shouldn't it not matter for
the free case?
> + else
> + return false;
> +}
--
Kees Cook
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