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| From | Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: Add additional consistency check |
| Date | 2017-04-27 14:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <tAQpb-ol-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <tr7Um-76y-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <tsuYy-4fH-13@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On Tue 04-04-17 13:30:22, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Fri 31-03-17 09:40:28, Kees Cook wrote: > > As found in PaX, this adds a cheap check on heap consistency, just to > > notice if things have gotten corrupted in the page lookup. > > > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> > > NAK without a proper changelog. Seriously, we do not blindly apply > changes from other projects without a deep understanding of all > consequences. This still seems to be in the mmotm tree http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-add-additional-consistency-check.patch I hope we have agreed that this is not the right approach to handle invalid pointers in kfree and rather go soemthing like http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170411141956.GP6729@dhcp22.suse.cz instead. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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