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    usercopy: Mark kmalloc caches as usercopy caches · 6c0c21ad
    David Windsor authored
    
    
    Mark the kmalloc slab caches as entirely whitelisted. These caches
    are frequently used to fulfill kernel allocations that contain data
    to be copied to/from userspace. Internal-only uses are also common,
    but are scattered in the kernel. For now, mark all the kmalloc caches
    as whitelisted.
    
    This patch is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's PAX_USERCOPY
    whitelisting code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my
    understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are
    mine and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Windsor <dave@nullcore.net>
    [kees: merged in moved kmalloc hunks, adjust commit log]
    Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
    Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
    Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
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