mm/page_poison.c: enable PAGE_POISONING as a separate option

Page poisoning is currently set up as a feature if architectures don't
have architecture debug page_alloc to allow unmapping of pages.  It has
uses apart from that though.  Clearing of the pages on free provides an
increase in security as it helps to limit the risk of information leaks.
Allow page poisoning to be enabled as a separate option independent of
kernel_map pages since the two features do separate work.  Because of
how hiberanation is implemented, the checks on alloc cannot occur if
hibernation is enabled.  The runtime alloc checks can also be enabled
with an option when !HIBERNATION.

Credit to Grsecurity/PaX team for inspiring this work

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: 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>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug
index a0c136a..1f99f9a 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug
@@ -41,4 +41,27 @@ config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT
 	  can be overridden by debug_pagealloc=off|on.
 
 config PAGE_POISONING
-	bool
+	bool "Poison pages after freeing"
+	select PAGE_EXTENSION
+	select PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY if HIBERNATION
+	---help---
+	  Fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify
+	  the patterns before alloc_pages. The filling of the memory helps
+	  reduce the risk of information leaks from freed data. This does
+	  have a potential performance impact.
+
+	  Note that "poison" here is not the same thing as the "HWPoison"
+	  for CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE. This is software poisoning only.
+
+	  If unsure, say N
+
+config PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY
+	depends on PAGE_POISONING
+	bool "Only poison, don't sanity check"
+	---help---
+	   Skip the sanity checking on alloc, only fill the pages with
+	   poison on free. This reduces some of the overhead of the
+	   poisoning feature.
+
+	   If you are only interested in sanitization, say Y. Otherwise
+	   say N.