To reduce stale data lifetimes, enable CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON as well. This matches the addition of CONFIG_STACKLEAK=y, which is doing similar for stack memory. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/configs/hardening.config | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/configs/hardening.config b/kernel/configs/hardening.config index 3da00926b4eb..7d92a740e490 100644 --- a/kernel/configs/hardening.config +++ b/kernel/configs/hardening.config @@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ CONFIG_LIST_HARDENED=y # Initialize all heap variables to zero on allocation. CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON=y +# Initialize all heap variables to zero on free to reduce stale data lifetime. +CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON=y + # Initialize all stack variables to zero on function entry. CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO=y -- 2.34.1
