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CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO uses the zero pattern instead of 0xAA. It was
introduced by commit 1414c7f4f7 ("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 <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@kernel.org>
Cc: Mateusz Nosek <mateusznosek0@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
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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_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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Also, the state of page tracking structures is checked more often as
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pages are being allocated and freed, as unexpected state changes
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often happen for same reasons as memory corruption (e.g. double free,
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use-after-free). The error reports for these checks can be augmented
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with stack traces of last allocation and freeing of the page, when
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PAGE_OWNER is also selected and enabled on boot.
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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, this option cannot
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be enabled in combination with hibernation as that would result in
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incorrect warnings of memory corruption after a resume because free
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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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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_OWNER
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bool "Track page owner"
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depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
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select DEBUG_FS
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select STACKTRACE
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select STACKDEPOT
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select PAGE_EXTENSION
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help
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This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
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help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
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feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
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"page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
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a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
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for user-space helper.
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If unsure, say N.
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config PAGE_POISONING
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bool "Poison pages after freeing"
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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 you are only interested in sanitization of freed pages without
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checking the poison pattern on alloc, you can boot the kernel with
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"init_on_free=1" instead of enabling this.
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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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config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX
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bool
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config DEBUG_WX
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bool "Warn on W+X mappings at boot"
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depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX
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depends on MMU
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select PTDUMP_CORE
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help
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Generate a warning if any W+X mappings are found at boot.
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This is useful for discovering cases where the kernel is leaving W+X
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mappings after applying NX, as such mappings are a security risk.
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Look for a message in dmesg output like this:
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<arch>/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found.
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or like this, if the check failed:
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<arch>/mm: Checked W+X mappings: failed, <N> W+X pages found.
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Note that even if the check fails, your kernel is possibly
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still fine, as W+X mappings are not a security hole in
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themselves, what they do is that they make the exploitation
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of other unfixed kernel bugs easier.
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There is no runtime or memory usage effect of this option
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once the kernel has booted up - it's a one time check.
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If in doubt, say "Y".
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config GENERIC_PTDUMP
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bool
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config PTDUMP_CORE
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bool
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config PTDUMP_DEBUGFS
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bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
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depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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depends on DEBUG_FS
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depends on GENERIC_PTDUMP
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select PTDUMP_CORE
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help
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Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
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debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
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who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
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It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
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kernel.
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If in doubt, say N.
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