[Bug 74532] New: Sanitize all freed GPU memory

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74532

          Priority: medium
            Bug ID: 74532
          Keywords: security
          Assignee: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
           Summary: Sanitize all freed GPU memory
          Severity: normal
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux (All)
          Reporter: nikoli at gmx.us
          Hardware: All
            Status: NEW
           Version: unspecified
         Component: General
           Product: DRI

X11 applications are able to get and display in human readable form parts of
closed applications, see:
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/521

It means applications like skype can silently send much more data, then you
expect, even when you run them as separate user.

Asked about this security problem in #gentoo-hardened, #radeon and #dri-devel,
summarizing:

0) Currently GPU memory is not sanitized by kernel, nothing enforces and
ensures its sanitizing.

1) https://grsecurity.net Linux kernel patches add ability to sanitize all
freed memory, but they do not affect GPU memory:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Grsecurity/Appendix/Grsecurity_and_PaX_Configuration_Options#Sanitize_all_freed_memory

2) The only secure place to clean memory is kernel, because if application or X
server crashes, memory will not be erased.

3) Some applications possibly will work slower, so better make sanitizing
configurable by adding build and run time kernel options.

4) Most likely this problem affects opencl too.

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