Commit de1c831a authored by Kees Cook's avatar Kees Cook Committed by Petr Mladek
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slab: Decouple slab_debug and no_hash_pointers

Some system owners use slab_debug=FPZ (or similar) as a hardening option,
but do not want to be forced into having kernel addresses exposed due
to the implicit "no_hash_pointers" boot param setting.[1]

Introduce the "hash_pointers" boot param, which defaults to "auto"
(the current behavior), but also includes "always" (forcing on hashing
even when "slab_debug=..." is defined), and "never". The existing
"no_hash_pointers" boot param becomes an alias for "hash_pointers=never".

This makes it possible to boot with "slab_debug=FPZ hash_pointers=always".

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/368

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Fixes: 79270291 ("slub: force on no_hash_pointers when slub_debug is enabled")
Co-developed-by: default avatarSergio Perez Gonzalez <sperezglz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSergio Perez Gonzalez <sperezglz@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHarry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRafael Aquini <raquini@redhat.com>
Tested-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250415170232.it.467-kees@kernel.org


[kees@kernel.org: Add note about hash_pointers into slab_debug kernel parameter documentation.]
Signed-off-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
parent af54a3a1
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