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mm/slab: validate cache membership under freelist hardening
Patch series "mm/slab: Improved sanity checking". This adds defenses against slab cache confusion (as seen in real-world exploits[1]) and gracefully handles type confusions when trying to look up slab caches from an arbitrary page. (Also is patch 3: new LKDTM tests for these defenses as well as for the existing double-free detection. This patch (of 3): When building under CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENING, it makes sense to perform sanity-checking on the assumed slab cache during kmem_cache_free() to make sure the kernel doesn't mix freelists across slab caches and corrupt memory (as seen in the exploitation of flaws like CVE-2018-9568[1]). Note that the prior code might WARN() but still corrupt memory (i.e. return the assumed cache instead of the owned cache). There is no noticeable performance impact (changes are within noise). Measuring parallel kernel builds, I saw the following with CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED, before and after this patch: before: Run times: 288.85 286.53 287.09 287.07 287.21 Min: 286.53 Max: 288.85 Mean: 287.35 Std Dev: 0.79 after: Run times: 289.58 287.40 286.97 287.20 287.01 Min: 286.97 Max: 289.58 Mean: 287.63 Std Dev: 0.99 Delta: 0.1% which is well below the standard deviation [1] https://github.com/ThomasKing2014/slides/raw/master/Building%20universal%20Android%20rooting%20with%20a%20type%20confusion%20vulnerability.pdf Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Popov <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <[email protected]> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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