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[173.164.112.133]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id r83-v6sm18241486pgr.8.2018.07.25.15.38.33 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:38:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:38:32 -0700 From: Kees Cook To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jonathan Corbet , Laura Abbott , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] mm: Clarify CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING and usage Message-ID: <20180725223832.GA43733@beast> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org The Kconfig text for CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING doesn't mention that it has to be enabled explicitly. This updates the documentation for that and adds a note about CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING to the "page_poison" command line docs. While here, change description of CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO too, as it's not "random" data, but rather the fixed debugging value that would be used when not zeroing. Additionally removes a stray "bool" in the Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 +++-- mm/Kconfig.debug | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 533ff5c68970..f8a81b929089 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2933,8 +2933,9 @@ on: enable the feature page_poison= [KNL] Boot-time parameter changing the state of - poisoning on the buddy allocator. - off: turn off poisoning + poisoning on the buddy allocator, available with + CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y. + off: turn off poisoning (default) on: turn on poisoning panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug index e5e606ee5f71..9a7b8b049d04 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig.debug +++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug @@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ config PAGE_POISONING 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. + have a potential performance impact if enabled with the + "page_poison=1" kernel boot option. Note that "poison" here is not the same thing as the "HWPoison" for CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE. This is software poisoning only. @@ -65,7 +66,7 @@ config PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY say N. config PAGE_POISONING_ZERO - bool "Use zero for poisoning instead of random data" + bool "Use zero for poisoning instead of debugging value" depends on PAGE_POISONING ---help--- Instead of using the existing poison value, fill the pages with @@ -75,7 +76,6 @@ config PAGE_POISONING_ZERO allocation. If unsure, say N - bool config DEBUG_PAGE_REF bool "Enable tracepoint to track down page reference manipulation" -- 2.17.1 -- Kees Cook Pixel Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html