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lkdtm: Update WRITE_AFTER_FREE test
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The SLUB allocator may use the first word of a freed block to store the
freelist information. This may make it harder to test poisoning
features. Change the WRITE_AFTER_FREE test to better match what
the READ_AFTER_FREE test does and also print out a big more information.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Laura Abbott authored and Kees Cook committed Mar 1, 2016
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17 changes: 13 additions & 4 deletions drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
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Expand Up @@ -411,12 +411,21 @@ static void lkdtm_do_action(enum ctype which)
break;
}
case CT_WRITE_AFTER_FREE: {
int *base;
size_t len = 1024;
u32 *data = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
/*
* The slub allocator uses the first word to store the free
* pointer in some configurations. Use the middle of the
* allocation to avoid running into the freelist
*/
size_t offset = (len / sizeof(*base)) / 2;

kfree(data);
schedule();
memset(data, 0x78, len);
base = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
pr_info("Allocated memory %p-%p\n", base, &base[offset * 2]);
kfree(base);
pr_info("Attempting bad write to freed memory at %p\n",
&base[offset]);
base[offset] = 0x0abcdef0;
break;
}
case CT_READ_AFTER_FREE: {
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