[PATCH] mm: security: introduce CONFIG_INIT_HEAP_ALL

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 4/12/19 2:45 PM, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> +config INIT_HEAP_ALL
> +	bool "Initialize kernel heap allocations"

Calling slab and page allocations together as "heap" is rather uncommon
in the kernel I think. But I don't have a better word right now.

> +	default n
> +	help
> +	  Enforce initialization of pages allocated from page allocator
> +	  and objects returned by kmalloc and friends.
> +	  Allocated memory is initialized with zeroes, preventing possible
> +	  information leaks and making the control-flow bugs that depend
> +	  on uninitialized values more deterministic.
> +
>  config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_VERBOSE
>  	bool "Report forcefully initialized variables"
>  	depends on GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK
>