[PATCH mm] kfence: zero guard page after out-of-bounds access

From: Marco Elver
Date: Fri Mar 12 2021 - 07:17:31 EST


After an out-of-bounds accesses, zero the guard page before
re-protecting in kfence_guarded_free(). On one hand this helps make the
failure mode of subsequent out-of-bounds accesses more deterministic,
but could also prevent certain information leaks.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/kfence/core.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/kfence/core.c b/mm/kfence/core.c
index 3b8ec938470a..f7106f28443d 100644
--- a/mm/kfence/core.c
+++ b/mm/kfence/core.c
@@ -371,6 +371,7 @@ static void kfence_guarded_free(void *addr, struct kfence_metadata *meta, bool z

/* Restore page protection if there was an OOB access. */
if (meta->unprotected_page) {
+ memzero_explicit((void *)ALIGN_DOWN(meta->unprotected_page, PAGE_SIZE), PAGE_SIZE);
kfence_protect(meta->unprotected_page);
meta->unprotected_page = 0;
}
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2.31.0.rc2.261.g7f71774620-goog