The patch titled
Subject: mm/slab.h: add additional consistency check
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-add-additional-consistency-check.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-add-additional-consistency-check.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-add-additional-consistency-check.patch
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From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/slab.h: add additional consistency check
As found in PaX, this adds a cheap check on heap consistency, just to
notice if things have gotten corrupted in the page lookup.
Given the kinds of heap attacks I've been seeing, I think this added
consistency check is worth it given how inexpensive it is. When heap
metadata gets corrupted, we can get into nasty side-effects that can be
attacker-controlled, so better to catch obviously bad states as early as
possible.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170331164028.GA118828@beast
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slab.h | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff -puN mm/slab.h~mm-add-additional-consistency-check mm/slab.h
--- a/mm/slab.h~mm-add-additional-consistency-check
+++ a/mm/slab.h
@@ -384,6 +384,7 @@ static inline struct kmem_cache *cache_f
return s;
page = virt_to_head_page(x);
+ BUG_ON(!PageSlab(page));
cachep = page->slab_cache;
if (slab_equal_or_root(cachep, s))
return cachep;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-remove-rodata_test_data-export-add-pr_fmt.patch
mm-add-additional-consistency-check.patch
reiserfs-use-designated-initializers.patch
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