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

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1704111125320.25069@east.gentwo.org>
Date:   Tue, 11 Apr 2017 11:26:00 -0500 (CDT)
From:   Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
cc:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Add additional consistency check

On Tue, 11 Apr 2017, Kees Cook wrote:

> It seems that enabling the debug checks comes with a non-trivial
> performance impact. I'd like to see consistency checks by default so
> we can handle intentional heap corruption attacks better. This check
> isn't expensive...

Note also that these checks can be enabled and disabled at runtime for
each slab cache.