UPSTREAM: bug: Provide toggle for BUG on data corruption
(cherry-picked from de54ebbe) The kernel checks for cases of data structure corruption under some CONFIGs (e.g. CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST). When corruption is detected, some systems may want to BUG() immediately instead of letting the system run with known corruption. Usually these kinds of manipulation primitives can be used by security flaws to gain arbitrary memory write control. This provides a new config CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION and a corresponding macro CHECK_DATA_CORRUPTION for handling these situations. Notably, even if not BUGing, the kernel should not continue processing the corrupted structure. This is inspired by similar hardening by Syed Rameez Mustafa in MSM kernels, and in PaX and Grsecurity, which is likely in response to earlier removal of the BUG calls in commit 924d9add ("list debugging: use WARN() instead of BUG()"). Change-Id: I4cdfa9fbebe32a990a111d051e4ec4e421f77a09 Signed-off-by:Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by:
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by:
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Satya Tangirala <satyat@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
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