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slab_nomerge may reduce surface somewhat

slub_debug is used to enable additional sanity checks and "red zones" around
allocations to detect read/writes beyond the allocated area, as well as
poisoning to overwrite free'd data.

The cost is yet more memory fragmentation ...
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Joachim Fasting 2019-01-05 13:47:25 +01:00
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@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ with lib;
security.apparmor.enable = mkDefault true;
boot.kernelParams = [
# Slab/slub sanity checks, redzoning, and poisoning
"slub_debug=FZP"
# Disable slab merging to make certain heap overflow attacks harder
"slab_nomerge"
# Overwrite free'd memory
"page_poison=1"