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mm/kfence: randomize the freelist on initialization
authorPimyn Girgis <pimyn@google.com>
Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:15:10 +0000 (17:15 +0100)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:03:48 +0000 (19:03 -0800)
commit870ff19251bf3910dda7a7245da826924045fedd
tree978354f1fa90f331b015c143f28fdccff2d2ef61
parent412a32f0e53f4a50062f6f4bc18f8910aa551734
mm/kfence: randomize the freelist on initialization

Randomize the KFENCE freelist during pool initialization to make
allocation patterns less predictable.  This is achieved by shuffling the
order in which metadata objects are added to the freelist using
get_random_u32_below().

Additionally, ensure the error path correctly calculates the address range
to be reset if initialization fails, as the address increment logic has
been moved to a separate loop.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260120161510.3289089-1-pimyn@google.com
Fixes: 0ce20dd84089 ("mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Pimyn Girgis <pimyn@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Ernesto Martnez Garca <ernesto.martinezgarcia@tugraz.at>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/kfence/core.c