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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. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180725223832.GA43733@beast Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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config PAGE_EXTENSION
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bool "Extend memmap on extra space for more information on page"
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---help---
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Extend memmap on extra space for more information on page. This
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could be used for debugging features that need to insert extra
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field for every page. This extension enables us to save memory
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by not allocating this extra memory according to boottime
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configuration.
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config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
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bool "Debug page memory allocations"
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depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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depends on !HIBERNATION || ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC && !PPC && !SPARC
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select PAGE_EXTENSION
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select PAGE_POISONING if !ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
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---help---
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Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
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Depending on runtime enablement, this results in a small or large
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slowdown, but helps to find certain types of memory corruption.
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For architectures which don't enable ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,
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fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify
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the patterns before alloc_pages(). Additionally,
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this option cannot be enabled in combination with hibernation as
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that would result in incorrect warnings of memory corruption after
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a resume because free pages are not saved to the suspend image.
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By default this option will have a small overhead, e.g. by not
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allowing the kernel mapping to be backed by large pages on some
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architectures. Even bigger overhead comes when the debugging is
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enabled by DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT or the debug_pagealloc
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command line parameter.
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config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT
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bool "Enable debug page memory allocations by default?"
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default n
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depends on DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
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---help---
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Enable debug page memory allocations by default? This value
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can be overridden by debug_pagealloc=off|on.
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config PAGE_POISONING
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bool "Poison pages after freeing"
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select PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY if HIBERNATION
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---help---
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Fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify
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the patterns before alloc_pages. The filling of the memory helps
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reduce the risk of information leaks from freed data. This does
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have a potential performance impact if enabled with the
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"page_poison=1" kernel boot option.
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Note that "poison" here is not the same thing as the "HWPoison"
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for CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE. This is software poisoning only.
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If unsure, say N
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config PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY
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depends on PAGE_POISONING
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bool "Only poison, don't sanity check"
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---help---
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Skip the sanity checking on alloc, only fill the pages with
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poison on free. This reduces some of the overhead of the
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poisoning feature.
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If you are only interested in sanitization, say Y. Otherwise
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say N.
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config PAGE_POISONING_ZERO
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bool "Use zero for poisoning instead of debugging value"
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depends on PAGE_POISONING
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---help---
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Instead of using the existing poison value, fill the pages with
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zeros. This makes it harder to detect when errors are occurring
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due to sanitization but the zeroing at free means that it is
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no longer necessary to write zeros when GFP_ZERO is used on
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allocation.
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If unsure, say N
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config DEBUG_PAGE_REF
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bool "Enable tracepoint to track down page reference manipulation"
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depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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depends on TRACEPOINTS
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---help---
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This is a feature to add tracepoint for tracking down page reference
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manipulation. This tracking is useful to diagnose functional failure
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due to migration failures caused by page reference mismatches. Be
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careful when enabling this feature because it adds about 30 KB to the
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kernel code. However the runtime performance overhead is virtually
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nil until the tracepoints are actually enabled.
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config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
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bool "Testcase for the marking rodata read-only"
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depends on STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
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---help---
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This option enables a testcase for the setting rodata read-only.
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