linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/5] bug: Provide toggle for BUG on data corruption

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Message-Id: <1471381865-25724-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org>
Date:	Tue, 16 Aug 2016 14:11:00 -0700
From:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: [PATCH 0/5] bug: Provide toggle for BUG on data corruption

This adds a CONFIG to trigger BUG()s when the kernel encounters
unexpected data structure integrity as currently detected with
CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST, CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK, and with workqueues.

Specifically list operations have been a target for widening flaws to gain
"write anywhere" primitives for attackers, so this also consolidates the
debug checking to avoid code and check duplication (e.g. RCU list debug
was missing a check that got added to regular list debug). It also stops
manipulations when corruption is detected, since worsening the corruption
makes no sense. (Really, everyone should build with CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST
since the checks are so inexpensive.)

This is mostly a refactoring of similar code from PaX and Grsecurity,
along with MSM kernel changes by Stephen Boyd.

Along with the patches is a new lkdtm test to validate that setting
CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST actually does what is desired.

Thanks,

-Kees