Thread (29 messages) 29 messages, 5 authors, 2018-02-22

[PATCH 5/6] Pmalloc: self-test

From: Kees Cook <hidden>
Date: 2018-02-21 22:24:42
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 8:40 AM, Igor Stoppa [off-list ref] wrote:
On 13/02/18 01:43, Kees Cook wrote:
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On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 8:53 AM, Igor Stoppa [off-list ref] wrote:
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+obj-$(CONFIG_PROTECTABLE_MEMORY_SELFTEST) += pmalloc-selftest.o
Nit: self-test modules are traditionally named "test_$thing.o"
(outside of the tools/ directory).
ok

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I wonder if lkdtm should grow a test too, to validate the RO-ness of
the allocations at the right time in API usage?
sorry for being dense ... are you proposing that I do something to
lkdtm_rodata.c ? An example would probably help me understand.
It would likely live in lkdtm_perms.c (or maybe lkdtm_heap.c). Namely,
use the pmalloc API and then attempt to write to a read-only variable
in the pmalloc region (to prove that the permission adjustment
actually happened). Likely a good example is
lkdtm_WRITE_RO_AFTER_INIT().

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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