+ mm-add-additional-consistency-check.patch added to -mm tree

+ mm-add-additional-consistency-check.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm/slab.h: add additional consistency check
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mm-add-additional-consistency-check.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-add-additional-consistency-check.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-add-additional-consistency-check.patch

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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: mm/slab.h: add additional consistency check

As found in PaX, this adds a cheap check on heap consistency, just to
notice if things have gotten corrupted in the page lookup.

Given the kinds of heap attacks I've been seeing, I think this added
consistency check is worth it given how inexpensive it is.  When heap
metadata gets corrupted, we can get into nasty side-effects that can be
attacker-controlled, so better to catch obviously bad states as early as
possible.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170331164028.GA118828@beast
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/slab.h |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff -puN mm/slab.h~mm-add-additional-consistency-check mm/slab.h
--- a/mm/slab.h~mm-add-additional-consistency-check
+++ a/mm/slab.h
@@ -384,6 +384,7 @@ static inline struct kmem_cache *cache_f
 		return s;
 
 	page = virt_to_head_page(x);
+	BUG_ON(!PageSlab(page));
 	cachep = page->slab_cache;
 	if (slab_equal_or_root(cachep, s))
 		return cachep;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from keescook@chromium.org are

mm-remove-rodata_test_data-export-add-pr_fmt.patch
mm-add-additional-consistency-check.patch
reiserfs-use-designated-initializers.patch