Re: [PATCH v8 1/2] mm: security: introduce init_on_alloc=1 and init_on_free=1 boot options

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On Wed 26-06-19 14:19:42, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
[...]
> diff --git a/mm/dmapool.c b/mm/dmapool.c
> index 8c94c89a6f7e..fe5d33060415 100644
> --- a/mm/dmapool.c
> +++ b/mm/dmapool.c
[...]
> @@ -428,6 +428,8 @@ void dma_pool_free(struct dma_pool *pool, void *vaddr, dma_addr_t dma)
>  	}
>  
>  	offset = vaddr - page->vaddr;
> +	if (want_init_on_free())
> +		memset(vaddr, 0, pool->size);

any reason why this is not in DMAPOOL_DEBUG else branch? Why would you
want to both zero on free and poison on free?

>  #ifdef	DMAPOOL_DEBUG
>  	if ((dma - page->dma) != offset) {
>  		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);

[...]

> @@ -1142,6 +1200,8 @@ static __always_inline bool free_pages_prepare(struct page *page,
>  	}
>  	arch_free_page(page, order);
>  	kernel_poison_pages(page, 1 << order, 0);
> +	if (want_init_on_free())
> +		kernel_init_free_pages(page, 1 << order);

same here. If you don't want to make this exclusive then you have to
zero before poisoning otherwise you are going to blow up on the poison
check, right?

>  	if (debug_pagealloc_enabled())
>  		kernel_map_pages(page, 1 << order, 0);
>  
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs




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