linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: Add additional consistency check

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Date:   Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:06:25 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Add additional consistency check

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@...omium.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