mm/page_poisoning.c: allow for zero poisoning

By default, page poisoning uses a poison value (0xaa) on free. If this is changed to 0, the page is not only sanitized but zeroing on alloc with __GFP_ZERO can be skipped as well. The tradeoff is that detecting corruption from the poisoning is harder to detect. This feature also cannot be used with hibernation since pages are not guaranteed to be zeroed after hibernation. Credit to Grsecurity/PaX team for inspiring this work Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <[email protected]> Acked-by: 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]>
lucamilanesio · Mar 15, 2016 · 1414c7f · 1414c7f
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diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2179,10 +2179,12 @@ extern int apply_to_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
 #ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING
 extern bool page_poisoning_enabled(void);
 extern void kernel_poison_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable);
+extern bool page_is_poisoned(struct page *page);
 #else
 static inline bool page_poisoning_enabled(void) { return false; }
 static inline void kernel_poison_pages(struct page *page, int numpages,
 					int enable) { }
+static inline bool page_is_poisoned(struct page *page) { return false; }
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC

diff --git a/include/linux/poison.h b/include/linux/poison.h
@@ -30,7 +30,11 @@
 #define TIMER_ENTRY_STATIC	((void *) 0x300 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA)
 
 /********** mm/debug-pagealloc.c **********/
+#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO
+#define PAGE_POISON 0x00
+#else
 #define PAGE_POISON 0xaa
+#endif
 
 /********** mm/page_alloc.c ************/
 

diff --git a/kernel/power/hibernate.c b/kernel/power/hibernate.c
@@ -1158,6 +1158,22 @@ static int __init kaslr_nohibernate_setup(char *str)
 	return nohibernate_setup(str);
 }
 
+static int __init page_poison_nohibernate_setup(char *str)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO
+	/*
+	 * The zeroing option for page poison skips the checks on alloc.
+	 * since hibernation doesn't save free pages there's no way to
+	 * guarantee the pages will still be zeroed.
+	 */
+	if (!strcmp(str, "on")) {
+		pr_info("Disabling hibernation due to page poisoning\n");
+		return nohibernate_setup(str);
+	}
+#endif
+	return 1;
+}
+
 __setup("noresume", noresume_setup);
 __setup("resume_offset=", resume_offset_setup);
 __setup("resume=", resume_setup);
@@ -1166,3 +1182,4 @@ __setup("resumewait", resumewait_setup);
 __setup("resumedelay=", resumedelay_setup);
 __setup("nohibernate", nohibernate_setup);
 __setup("kaslr", kaslr_nohibernate_setup);
+__setup("page_poison=", page_poison_nohibernate_setup);
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug
@@ -65,3 +65,17 @@ config PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY
 
 	   If you are only interested in sanitization, say Y. Otherwise
 	   say N.
+
+config PAGE_POISONING_ZERO
+	bool "Use zero for poisoning instead of random data"
+	depends on PAGE_POISONING
+	---help---
+	   Instead of using the existing poison value, fill the pages with
+	   zeros. This makes it harder to detect when errors are occurring
+	   due to sanitization but the zeroing at free means that it is
+	   no longer necessary to write zeros when GFP_ZERO is used on
+	   allocation.
+
+	   Enabling page poisoning with this option will disable hibernation
+
+	   If unsure, say N
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1405,15 +1405,24 @@ static inline int check_new_page(struct page *page)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static inline bool free_pages_prezeroed(bool poisoned)
+{
+	return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO) &&
+		page_poisoning_enabled() && poisoned;
+}
+
 static int prep_new_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order, gfp_t gfp_flags,
 								int alloc_flags)
 {
 	int i;
+	bool poisoned = true;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++) {
 		struct page *p = page + i;
 		if (unlikely(check_new_page(p)))
 			return 1;
+		if (poisoned)
+			poisoned &= page_is_poisoned(p);
 	}
 
 	set_page_private(page, 0);
@@ -1424,7 +1433,7 @@ static int prep_new_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order, gfp_t gfp_flags,
 	kernel_poison_pages(page, 1 << order, 1);
 	kasan_alloc_pages(page, order);
 
-	if (gfp_flags & __GFP_ZERO)
+	if (!free_pages_prezeroed(poisoned) && (gfp_flags & __GFP_ZERO))
 		for (i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++)
 			clear_highpage(page + i);
 

diff --git a/mm/page_ext.c b/mm/page_ext.c
@@ -106,12 +106,15 @@ struct page_ext *lookup_page_ext(struct page *page)
 	struct page_ext *base;
 
 	base = NODE_DATA(page_to_nid(page))->node_page_ext;
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
+#if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM) || defined(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING)
 	/*
 	 * The sanity checks the page allocator does upon freeing a
 	 * page can reach here before the page_ext arrays are
 	 * allocated when feeding a range of pages to the allocator
 	 * for the first time during bootup or memory hotplug.
+	 *
+	 * This check is also necessary for ensuring page poisoning
+	 * works as expected when enabled
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(!base))
 		return NULL;
@@ -180,12 +183,15 @@ struct page_ext *lookup_page_ext(struct page *page)
 {
 	unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
 	struct mem_section *section = __pfn_to_section(pfn);
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
+#if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM) || defined(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING)
 	/*
 	 * The sanity checks the page allocator does upon freeing a
 	 * page can reach here before the page_ext arrays are
 	 * allocated when feeding a range of pages to the allocator
 	 * for the first time during bootup or memory hotplug.
+	 *
+	 * This check is also necessary for ensuring page poisoning
+	 * works as expected when enabled
 	 */
 	if (!section->page_ext)
 		return NULL;

diff --git a/mm/page_poison.c b/mm/page_poison.c
@@ -71,11 +71,14 @@ static inline void clear_page_poison(struct page *page)
 	__clear_bit(PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_POISON, &page_ext->flags);
 }
 
-static inline bool page_poison(struct page *page)
+bool page_is_poisoned(struct page *page)
 {
 	struct page_ext *page_ext;
 
 	page_ext = lookup_page_ext(page);
+	if (!page_ext)
+		return false;
+
 	return test_bit(PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_POISON, &page_ext->flags);
 }
 
@@ -137,7 +140,7 @@ static void unpoison_page(struct page *page)
 {
 	void *addr;
 
-	if (!page_poison(page))
+	if (!page_is_poisoned(page))
 		return;
 
 	addr = kmap_atomic(page);