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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] Speed up SLUB poisoning + disable checks
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 09:01:31 -0600 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1601260900370.27338@east.gentwo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160126070320.GB28254@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE>

On Tue, 26 Jan 2016, Joonsoo Kim wrote:

> I doesn't follow up that discussion, but, I think that reusing
> SLAB_POISON for slab sanitization needs more changes. I assume that
> completeness and performance is matter for slab sanitization.
>
> 1) SLAB_POISON isn't applied to specific kmem_cache which has
> constructor or SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU flag. For debug, it's not necessary
> to be applied, but, for slab sanitization, it is better to apply it to
> all caches.

Those slabs can be legitimately accessed after the objects were freed. You
cannot sanitize nor poison.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-26 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-26  1:15 Laura Abbott
2016-01-26  1:15 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/3] slub: Drop lock at the end of free_debug_processing Laura Abbott
2016-01-26 16:19   ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-26  1:15 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/3] slub: Don't limit debugging to slow paths Laura Abbott
2016-01-26  8:48   ` Paul Bolle
2016-01-26  1:15 ` [PATCH 3/3] slub: Add option to skip consistency checks Laura Abbott
2016-01-26 15:00   ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-26  7:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/3] Speed up SLUB poisoning + disable checks Joonsoo Kim
2016-01-26 15:01   ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2016-01-26 15:21     ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-02-03 18:46   ` Laura Abbott
2016-02-03 21:06     ` Kees Cook
2016-02-03 21:35       ` Laura Abbott
2016-02-03 23:02         ` Christoph Lameter
2016-02-04  0:46           ` Laura Abbott
2016-02-04  3:23             ` Christoph Lameter
2016-01-26 14:57 ` Christoph Lameter

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