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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-09-07 05:49:49 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-09-07 05:49:49 +0200
commitd34fc1adf01ff87026da85fb972dc259dc347540 (patch)
tree27356073d423187157b7cdb69da32b53102fb9e7 /init
parentx86/mm: Document how CR4.PCIDE restore works (diff)
parentmm,fork: introduce MADV_WIPEONFORK (diff)
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge updates from Andrew Morton: - various misc bits - DAX updates - OCFS2 - most of MM * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (119 commits) mm,fork: introduce MADV_WIPEONFORK x86,mpx: make mpx depend on x86-64 to free up VMA flag mm: add /proc/pid/smaps_rollup mm: hugetlb: clear target sub-page last when clearing huge page mm: oom: let oom_reap_task and exit_mmap run concurrently swap: choose swap device according to numa node mm: replace TIF_MEMDIE checks by tsk_is_oom_victim mm, oom: do not rely on TIF_MEMDIE for memory reserves access z3fold: use per-cpu unbuddied lists mm, swap: don't use VMA based swap readahead if HDD is used as swap mm, swap: add sysfs interface for VMA based swap readahead mm, swap: VMA based swap readahead mm, swap: fix swap readahead marking mm, swap: add swap readahead hit statistics mm/vmalloc.c: don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API mm/vmstat.c: fix wrong comment selftests/memfd: add memfd_create hugetlbfs selftest mm/shmem: add hugetlbfs support to memfd_create() mm, devm_memremap_pages: use multi-order radix for ZONE_DEVICE lookups mm/vmalloc.c: halve the number of comparisons performed in pcpu_get_vm_areas() ...
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r--init/Kconfig9
-rw-r--r--init/main.c2
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 5f0ef850e808..78cb2461012e 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1576,6 +1576,15 @@ config SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM
security feature reduces the predictability of the kernel slab
allocator against heap overflows.
+config SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED
+ bool "Harden slab freelist metadata"
+ depends on SLUB
+ help
+ Many kernel heap attacks try to target slab cache metadata and
+ other infrastructure. This options makes minor performance
+ sacrifies to harden the kernel slab allocator against common
+ freelist exploit methods.
+
config SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
default y
depends on SLUB && SMP
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 8828fc148670..a21a1a8708a8 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init start_kernel(void)
boot_cpu_state_init();
smp_prepare_boot_cpu(); /* arch-specific boot-cpu hooks */
- build_all_zonelists(NULL, NULL);
+ build_all_zonelists(NULL);
page_alloc_init();
pr_notice("Kernel command line: %s\n", boot_command_line);