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authorLaura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>2016-03-15 14:56:30 -0700
committerVinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>2017-04-14 23:43:04 +0530
commit2c00b603db67af40aa0b02c834cc58fec98d3023 (patch)
treedcf7d9ea21e05af4e35dc59837811da8ff0a2b43 /scripts/objdiff
parent5c69adad61e27f467fa8e1671633e455741e3fae (diff)
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 Change-Id: If7116e6bff246abbafc38bdfeb3601d3ea063ad2 Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Git-commit: 1414c7f4f7d72d138fff35f00151d15749b5beda Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
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