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Vlastimil Babka 8f424750ba mm, page_poison: remove CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY
CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY skips the check on page alloc whether the
poison pattern was corrupted, suggesting a use-after-free.  The motivation
to introduce it in commit 8823b1dbc0 ("mm/page_poison.c: enable
PAGE_POISONING as a separate option") was to simply sanitize freed pages,
optimally together with CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO.

These days we have an init_on_free=1 boot option, which makes this use
case of page poisoning redundant.  For sanitizing, writing zeroes is
sufficient, there is pretty much no benefit from writing the 0xAA poison
pattern to freed pages, without checking it back on alloc.  Thus, remove
this option and suggest init_on_free instead in the main config's help.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201113104033.22907-5-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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arch arch, mm: make kernel_page_present() always available 2020-12-15 12:13:43 -08:00
block block-5.10-2020-12-05 2020-12-05 14:45:30 -08:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto drivers-5.10-2020-10-12 2020-10-13 13:04:41 -07:00
Documentation arm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL 2020-12-15 12:13:42 -08:00
drivers mm, page_poison: remove CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY 2020-12-15 12:13:46 -08:00
fs arm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL 2020-12-15 12:13:42 -08:00
include kernel/power: allow hibernation with page_poison sanity checking 2020-12-15 12:13:46 -08:00
init mm, page_alloc: do not rely on the order of page_poison and init_on_alloc/free parameters 2020-12-15 12:13:46 -08:00
ipc vm_ops: rename .split() callback to .may_split() 2020-12-15 12:13:41 -08:00
kernel kernel/power: allow hibernation with page_poison sanity checking 2020-12-15 12:13:46 -08:00
lib lib/test_kasan.c: add workqueue test case 2020-12-15 12:13:42 -08:00
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security selinux/stable-5.10 PR 20201113 2020-11-14 12:04:02 -08:00
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Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-12-10 15:30:13 -08:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.