[PATCH 3/4] gfp: mm: introduce __GFP_NOINIT

From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Date: 2019-05-08 15:38:24
Also in: linux-mm
Subsystem: kexec, memory management, memory management - core, memory management - page allocator, slab allocator, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Morton, Baoquan He, Mike Rapoport, Pasha Tatashin, Pratyush Yadav, David Hildenbrand, Vlastimil Babka, Harry Yoo, Linus Torvalds

When passed to an allocator (either pagealloc or SL[AOU]B), __GFP_NOINIT
tells it to not initialize the requested memory if the init_on_alloc
boot option is enabled. This can be useful in the cases newly allocated
memory is going to be initialized by the caller right away.

__GFP_NOINIT doesn't affect init_on_free behavior, except for SLOB,
where init_on_free implies init_on_alloc.

__GFP_NOINIT basically defeats the hardening against information leaks
provided by init_on_alloc, so one should use it with caution.

This patch also adds __GFP_NOINIT to alloc_pages() calls in SL[AOU]B.
Doing so is safe, because the heap allocators initialize the pages they
receive before passing memory to the callers.

Slowdown for the initialization features compared to init_on_free=0,
init_on_alloc=0:

hackbench, init_on_free=1:  +6.84% sys time (st.err 0.74%)
hackbench, init_on_alloc=1: +7.25% sys time (st.err 0.72%)

Linux build with -j12, init_on_free=1:  +8.52% wall time (st.err 0.42%)
Linux build with -j12, init_on_free=1:  +24.31% sys time (st.err 0.47%)
Linux build with -j12, init_on_alloc=1: -0.16% wall time (st.err 0.40%)
Linux build with -j12, init_on_alloc=1: +1.24% sys time (st.err 0.39%)

The slowdown for init_on_free=0, init_on_alloc=0 compared to the
baseline is within the standard error.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <redacted>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <redacted>
Cc: Kostya Serebryany <redacted>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <redacted>
Cc: Sandeep Patil <redacted>
Cc: Laura Abbott <redacted>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <redacted>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
---
 include/linux/gfp.h | 6 +++++-
 include/linux/mm.h  | 2 +-
 kernel/kexec_core.c | 2 +-
 mm/slab.c           | 2 +-
 mm/slob.c           | 3 ++-
 mm/slub.c           | 1 +
 6 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index fdab7de7490d..66d7f5604fe2 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
 #else
 #define ___GFP_NOLOCKDEP	0
 #endif
+#define ___GFP_NOINIT		0x1000000u
 /* If the above are modified, __GFP_BITS_SHIFT may need updating */
 
 /*

@@ -208,16 +209,19 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
  * %__GFP_COMP address compound page metadata.
  *
  * %__GFP_ZERO returns a zeroed page on success.
+ *
+ * %__GFP_NOINIT requests non-initialized memory from the underlying allocator.
  */
 #define __GFP_NOWARN	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOWARN)
 #define __GFP_COMP	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_COMP)
 #define __GFP_ZERO	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_ZERO)
+#define __GFP_NOINIT	((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOINIT)
 
 /* Disable lockdep for GFP context tracking */
 #define __GFP_NOLOCKDEP ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOLOCKDEP)
 
 /* Room for N __GFP_FOO bits */
-#define __GFP_BITS_SHIFT (23 + IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LOCKDEP))
+#define __GFP_BITS_SHIFT (25)
 #define __GFP_BITS_MASK ((__force gfp_t)((1 << __GFP_BITS_SHIFT) - 1))
 
 /**

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index ee1a1092679c..8ab152750eb4 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h

@@ -2618,7 +2618,7 @@ DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(init_on_alloc);
 static inline bool want_init_on_alloc(gfp_t flags)
 {
 	if (static_branch_unlikely(&init_on_alloc))
-		return true;
+		return !(flags & __GFP_NOINIT);
 	return flags & __GFP_ZERO;
 }

diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
index f19d1a91190b..e8ed6e3c6702 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c

@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ static struct page *kimage_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
 {
 	struct page *pages;
 
-	pages = alloc_pages(gfp_mask & ~__GFP_ZERO, order);
+	pages = alloc_pages((gfp_mask & ~__GFP_ZERO) | __GFP_NOINIT, order);
 	if (pages) {
 		unsigned int count, i;

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index fc5b3b81db60..f18739559825 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c

@@ -1393,7 +1393,7 @@ static struct page *kmem_getpages(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags,
 	struct page *page;
 	int nr_pages;
 
-	flags |= cachep->allocflags;
+	flags |= (cachep->allocflags | __GFP_NOINIT);
 
 	page = __alloc_pages_node(nodeid, flags, cachep->gfporder);
 	if (!page) {

diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
index 351d3dfee000..5b3c40dbd3f2 100644
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c

@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ static void *slob_new_pages(gfp_t gfp, int order, int node)
 {
 	void *page;
 
+	gfp |= __GFP_NOINIT;
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 	if (node != NUMA_NO_NODE)
 		page = __alloc_pages_node(node, gfp, order);

@@ -221,7 +222,7 @@ static inline bool slob_want_init_on_alloc(gfp_t flags, struct kmem_cache *c)
 {
 	if (static_branch_unlikely(&init_on_alloc) ||
 	    static_branch_unlikely(&init_on_free))
-		return c ? (!c->ctor) : true;
+		return c ? (!c->ctor) : !(flags & __GFP_NOINIT);
 	return flags & __GFP_ZERO;
 }

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index cc091424c593..8b61d244fdb4 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c

@@ -1504,6 +1504,7 @@ static inline struct page *alloc_slab_page(struct kmem_cache *s,
 	struct page *page;
 	unsigned int order = oo_order(oo);
 
+	flags |= __GFP_NOINIT;
 	if (node == NUMA_NO_NODE)
 		page = alloc_pages(flags, order);
 	else

-- 
2.21.0.1020.gf2820cf01a-goog

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