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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:01:09 +0100
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Subject: [PATCH] hardening: Enable KFENCE in the hardening config
From: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
To: elver@google.com, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>, 
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, 
	Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@kernel.org>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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KFENCE is not a security mitigation mechanism (due to sampling), but has
the performance characteristics of unintrusive hardening techniques.
When used at scale, however, it improves overall security by allowing
kernel developers to detect heap memory-safety bugs cheaply.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/79B9A832-B3DE-4229-9D87-748B2CFB7D12@kernel.org
Cc: Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@kernel.org>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
---
 kernel/configs/hardening.config | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/configs/hardening.config b/kernel/configs/hardening.config
index 95a400f042b1..79c865bfb116 100644
--- a/kernel/configs/hardening.config
+++ b/kernel/configs/hardening.config
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS=y
 # CONFIG_UBSAN_ALIGNMENT
 CONFIG_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL=y
 
+# Sampling-based heap out-of-bounds and use-after-free detection.
+CONFIG_KFENCE=y
+
 # Linked list integrity checking.
 CONFIG_LIST_HARDENED=y
 
-- 
2.43.0.687.g38aa6559b0-goog