mm/page_poisoning.c: allow for zero poisoning

By default, page poisoning uses a poison value (0xaa) on free.  If this
is changed to 0, the page is not only sanitized but zeroing on alloc
with __GFP_ZERO can be skipped as well.  The tradeoff is that detecting
corruption from the poisoning is harder to detect.  This feature also
cannot be used with hibernation since pages are not guaranteed to be
zeroed after hibernation.

Credit to Grsecurity/PaX team for inspiring this work

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Acked-by: 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, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 2a08349fbab2..50897dcaefdb 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1405,15 +1405,24 @@ static inline int check_new_page(struct page *page)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static inline bool free_pages_prezeroed(bool poisoned)
+{
+	return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO) &&
+		page_poisoning_enabled() && poisoned;
+}
+
 static int prep_new_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order, gfp_t gfp_flags,
 								int alloc_flags)
 {
 	int i;
+	bool poisoned = true;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++) {
 		struct page *p = page + i;
 		if (unlikely(check_new_page(p)))
 			return 1;
+		if (poisoned)
+			poisoned &= page_is_poisoned(p);
 	}
 
 	set_page_private(page, 0);
@@ -1424,7 +1433,7 @@ static int prep_new_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order, gfp_t gfp_flags,
 	kernel_poison_pages(page, 1 << order, 1);
 	kasan_alloc_pages(page, order);
 
-	if (gfp_flags & __GFP_ZERO)
+	if (!free_pages_prezeroed(poisoned) && (gfp_flags & __GFP_ZERO))
 		for (i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++)
 			clear_highpage(page + i);