Re: [PATCH v2] bug: further enhance use of CHECK_DATA_CORRUPTION

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Mon Jan 04 2021 - 18:09:12 EST


On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 03:12:11PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> This continues in applying the CHECK_DATA_CORRUPTION tests where
> appropriate, and pulling similar CONFIGs under the same check. Most
> notably, this adds the checks to refcount_t so that system builders can
> Oops their kernels when encountering a potential refcounter attack. (And
> so now the LKDTM tests for refcount issues pass correctly.)
>
> The series depends on the changes in -next made to lib/refcount.c,
> so it might be easiest if this goes through the locking tree...
>
> v2 is a rebase to -next and adjusts to using WARN_ONCE() instead of WARN().
>
> -Kees
>
> v1 was here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/6/720

Ping? Just wondering what ever happened to this 3+ year old series...

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Josh