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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt8
-rw-r--r--mm/mm_init.c10
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 6c42061ca20e..acdc7fbdecac 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -669,6 +669,14 @@
nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
nobpf -- Disable BPF memory accounting.
+ check_pages= [MM,EARLY] Enable sanity checking of pages after
+ allocations / before freeing. This adds checks to catch
+ double-frees, use-after-frees, and other sources of
+ page corruption by inspecting page internals (flags,
+ mapcount/refcount, memcg_data, etc.).
+ Format: { "0" | "1" }
+ Default: 0 (1 if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is set)
+
checkreqprot= [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
Format: { "0" | "1" }
See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
diff --git a/mm/mm_init.c b/mm/mm_init.c
index 7712d887b696..220b7c6b5fb2 100644
--- a/mm/mm_init.c
+++ b/mm/mm_init.c
@@ -2525,6 +2525,14 @@ early_param("init_on_free", early_init_on_free);
DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_MAYBE(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, check_pages_enabled);
+static bool check_pages_enabled_early __initdata;
+
+static int __init early_check_pages(char *buf)
+{
+ return kstrtobool(buf, &check_pages_enabled_early);
+}
+early_param("check_pages", early_check_pages);
+
/*
* Enable static keys related to various memory debugging and hardening options.
* Some override others, and depend on early params that are evaluated in the
@@ -2534,7 +2542,7 @@ DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_MAYBE(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, check_pages_enabled);
static void __init mem_debugging_and_hardening_init(void)
{
bool page_poisoning_requested = false;
- bool want_check_pages = false;
+ bool want_check_pages = check_pages_enabled_early;
#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING
/*