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mm/page_poison.c: enable PAGE_POISONING as a separate option
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Page poisoning is currently set up as a feature if architectures don't
have architecture debug page_alloc to allow unmapping of pages.  It has
uses apart from that though.  Clearing of the pages on free provides an
increase in security as it helps to limit the risk of information leaks.
Allow page poisoning to be enabled as a separate option independent of
kernel_map pages since the two features do separate work.  Because of
how hiberanation is implemented, the checks on alloc cannot occur if
hibernation is enabled.  The runtime alloc checks can also be enabled
with an option when !HIBERNATION.

Credit to Grsecurity/PaX team for inspiring this work

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <[email protected]>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Mathias Krause <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Jianyu Zhan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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Expand Up @@ -2731,6 +2731,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
we can turn it on.
on: enable the feature

page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of
poisoning on the buddy allocator.
off: turn off poisoning
on: turn on poisoning

panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting
timeout = 0: wait forever
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9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions include/linux/mm.h
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Expand Up @@ -2176,6 +2176,15 @@ extern int apply_to_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
unsigned long size, pte_fn_t fn, void *data);


#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING
extern bool page_poisoning_enabled(void);
extern void kernel_poison_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable);
#else
static inline bool page_poisoning_enabled(void) { return false; }
static inline void kernel_poison_pages(struct page *page, int numpages,
int enable) { }
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
extern bool _debug_pagealloc_enabled;
extern void __kernel_map_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable);
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25 changes: 24 additions & 1 deletion mm/Kconfig.debug
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Expand Up @@ -41,4 +41,27 @@ config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT
can be overridden by debug_pagealloc=off|on.

config PAGE_POISONING
bool
bool "Poison pages after freeing"
select PAGE_EXTENSION
select PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY if HIBERNATION
---help---
Fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify
the patterns before alloc_pages. The filling of the memory helps
reduce the risk of information leaks from freed data. This does
have a potential performance impact.

Note that "poison" here is not the same thing as the "HWPoison"
for CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE. This is software poisoning only.

If unsure, say N

config PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY
depends on PAGE_POISONING
bool "Only poison, don't sanity check"
---help---
Skip the sanity checking on alloc, only fill the pages with
poison on free. This reduces some of the overhead of the
poisoning feature.

If you are only interested in sanitization, say Y. Otherwise
say N.
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion mm/Makefile
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Expand Up @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP) += sparse-vmemmap.o
obj-$(CONFIG_SLOB) += slob.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER) += mmu_notifier.o
obj-$(CONFIG_KSM) += ksm.o
obj-$(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING) += debug-pagealloc.o
obj-$(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING) += page_poison.o
obj-$(CONFIG_SLAB) += slab.o
obj-$(CONFIG_SLUB) += slub.o
obj-$(CONFIG_KMEMCHECK) += kmemcheck.o
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions mm/page_alloc.c
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Expand Up @@ -1025,6 +1025,7 @@ static bool free_pages_prepare(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
PAGE_SIZE << order);
}
arch_free_page(page, order);
kernel_poison_pages(page, 1 << order, 0);
kernel_map_pages(page, 1 << order, 0);

return true;
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arch_alloc_page(page, order);
kernel_map_pages(page, 1 << order, 1);
kernel_poison_pages(page, 1 << order, 1);
kasan_alloc_pages(page, order);

if (gfp_flags & __GFP_ZERO)
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60 changes: 48 additions & 12 deletions mm/debug-pagealloc.c → mm/page_poison.c
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Expand Up @@ -6,22 +6,48 @@
#include <linux/poison.h>
#include <linux/ratelimit.h>

static bool page_poisoning_enabled __read_mostly;
static bool __page_poisoning_enabled __read_mostly;
static bool want_page_poisoning __read_mostly;

static bool need_page_poisoning(void)
static int early_page_poison_param(char *buf)
{
if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled())
return false;
if (!buf)
return -EINVAL;

if (strcmp(buf, "on") == 0)
want_page_poisoning = true;
else if (strcmp(buf, "off") == 0)
want_page_poisoning = false;

return true;
return 0;
}
early_param("page_poison", early_page_poison_param);

bool page_poisoning_enabled(void)
{
return __page_poisoning_enabled;
}

static bool need_page_poisoning(void)
{
return want_page_poisoning;
}

static void init_page_poisoning(void)
{
if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled())
return;
/*
* page poisoning is debug page alloc for some arches. If either
* of those options are enabled, enable poisoning
*/
if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC)) {
if (!want_page_poisoning && !debug_pagealloc_enabled())
return;
} else {
if (!want_page_poisoning)
return;
}

page_poisoning_enabled = true;
__page_poisoning_enabled = true;
}

struct page_ext_operations page_poisoning_ops = {
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unsigned char *start;
unsigned char *end;

if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY))
return;

start = memchr_inv(mem, PAGE_POISON, bytes);
if (!start)
return;
Expand All @@ -95,9 +124,9 @@ static void check_poison_mem(unsigned char *mem, size_t bytes)
if (!__ratelimit(&ratelimit))
return;
else if (start == end && single_bit_flip(*start, PAGE_POISON))
printk(KERN_ERR "pagealloc: single bit error\n");
pr_err("pagealloc: single bit error\n");
else
printk(KERN_ERR "pagealloc: memory corruption\n");
pr_err("pagealloc: memory corruption\n");

print_hex_dump(KERN_ERR, "", DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS, 16, 1, start,
end - start + 1, 1);
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unpoison_page(page + i);
}

void __kernel_map_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable)
void kernel_poison_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable)
{
if (!page_poisoning_enabled)
if (!page_poisoning_enabled())
return;

if (enable)
unpoison_pages(page, numpages);
else
poison_pages(page, numpages);
}

#ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
void __kernel_map_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable)
{
/* This function does nothing, all work is done via poison pages */
}
#endif

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