From f289041ed4cf9a3f6e8a32068fef9ffb2acc5662 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlastimil Babka Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 19:13:45 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm, page_poison: remove CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO uses the zero pattern instead of 0xAA. It was introduced by commit 1414c7f4f7d7 ("mm/page_poisoning.c: allow for zero poisoning"), noting that using zeroes retains the benefit of sanitizing content of freed pages, with the benefit of not having to zero them again on alloc, and the downside of making some forms of corruption (stray writes of NULLs) harder to detect than with the 0xAA pattern. Together with CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY it made possible to sanitize the contents on free without checking it back on alloc. These days we have the init_on_free() option to achieve sanitization with zeroes and to save clearing on alloc (and without checking on alloc). Arguably if someone does choose to check the poison for corruption on alloc, the savings of not clearing the page are secondary, and it makes sense to always use the 0xAA poison pattern. Thus, remove the CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO option for being redundant. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201113104033.22907-6-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Laura Abbott Cc: Mateusz Nosek Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/poison.h | 4 ---- mm/Kconfig.debug | 12 ------------ mm/page_alloc.c | 8 +------- tools/include/linux/poison.h | 6 +----- 4 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/poison.h b/include/linux/poison.h index dc8ae5d8db03..aff1c9250c82 100644 --- a/include/linux/poison.h +++ b/include/linux/poison.h @@ -27,11 +27,7 @@ #define TIMER_ENTRY_STATIC ((void *) 0x300 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA) /********** mm/page_poison.c **********/ -#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO -#define PAGE_POISON 0x00 -#else #define PAGE_POISON 0xaa -#endif /********** mm/page_alloc.c ************/ diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug index 14e29fe5bfa6..1e73717802f8 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig.debug +++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug @@ -80,18 +80,6 @@ config PAGE_POISONING If unsure, say N -config PAGE_POISONING_ZERO - 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 - 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. - - If unsure, say N - config DEBUG_PAGE_REF bool "Enable tracepoint to track down page reference manipulation" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index efcd1baa35e4..918647ff6eef 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2228,12 +2228,6 @@ static inline int check_new_page(struct page *page) return 1; } -static inline bool free_pages_prezeroed(void) -{ - return (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO) && - page_poisoning_enabled_static()) || want_init_on_free(); -} - #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM /* * With DEBUG_VM enabled, order-0 pages are checked for expected state when @@ -2296,7 +2290,7 @@ inline void post_alloc_hook(struct page *page, unsigned int order, kernel_unpoison_pages(page, 1 << order); set_page_owner(page, order, gfp_flags); - if (!free_pages_prezeroed() && want_init_on_alloc(gfp_flags)) + if (!want_init_on_free() && want_init_on_alloc(gfp_flags)) kernel_init_free_pages(page, 1 << order); } diff --git a/tools/include/linux/poison.h b/tools/include/linux/poison.h index d29725769107..2e6338ac5eed 100644 --- a/tools/include/linux/poison.h +++ b/tools/include/linux/poison.h @@ -35,12 +35,8 @@ */ #define TIMER_ENTRY_STATIC ((void *) 0x300 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA) -/********** mm/debug-pagealloc.c **********/ -#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO -#define PAGE_POISON 0x00 -#else +/********** mm/page_poison.c **********/ #define PAGE_POISON 0xaa -#endif /********** mm/page_alloc.c ************/