UPSTREAM: x86/vdso: Mark the vDSO code read-only after init
authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Wed, 17 Feb 2016 22:41:17 +0000 (14:41 -0800)
committerSami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Fri, 23 Sep 2016 17:04:26 +0000 (10:04 -0700)
commit60e8ff20653571ccab43f9f4554baaa26436e34b
tree1251b2b188bf7e988fb095a462482d1fc2e0bda0
parentba24621d7a79e3335f478fead5a84d6ee1a212ce
UPSTREAM: x86/vdso: Mark the vDSO code read-only after init

The vDSO does not need to be writable after __init, so mark it as
__ro_after_init. The result kills the exploit method of writing to the
vDSO from kernel space resulting in userspace executing the modified code,
as shown here to bypass SMEP restrictions: http://itszn.com/blog/?p=21

The memory map (with added vDSO address reporting) shows the vDSO moving
into read-only memory:

Before:
[    0.143067] vDSO @ ffffffff82004000
[    0.143551] vDSO @ ffffffff82006000
---[ High Kernel Mapping ]---
0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff81000000      16M                         pmd
0xffffffff81000000-0xffffffff81800000       8M   ro     PSE     GLB x  pmd
0xffffffff81800000-0xffffffff819f3000    1996K   ro             GLB x  pte
0xffffffff819f3000-0xffffffff81a00000      52K   ro                 NX pte
0xffffffff81a00000-0xffffffff81e00000       4M   ro     PSE     GLB NX pmd
0xffffffff81e00000-0xffffffff81e05000      20K   ro             GLB NX pte
0xffffffff81e05000-0xffffffff82000000    2028K   ro                 NX pte
0xffffffff82000000-0xffffffff8214f000    1340K   RW             GLB NX pte
0xffffffff8214f000-0xffffffff82281000    1224K   RW                 NX pte
0xffffffff82281000-0xffffffff82400000    1532K   RW             GLB NX pte
0xffffffff82400000-0xffffffff83200000      14M   RW     PSE     GLB NX pmd
0xffffffff83200000-0xffffffffc0000000     974M                         pmd

After:
[    0.145062] vDSO @ ffffffff81da1000
[    0.146057] vDSO @ ffffffff81da4000
---[ High Kernel Mapping ]---
0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff81000000      16M                         pmd
0xffffffff81000000-0xffffffff81800000       8M   ro     PSE     GLB x  pmd
0xffffffff81800000-0xffffffff819f3000    1996K   ro             GLB x  pte
0xffffffff819f3000-0xffffffff81a00000      52K   ro                 NX pte
0xffffffff81a00000-0xffffffff81e00000       4M   ro     PSE     GLB NX pmd
0xffffffff81e00000-0xffffffff81e0b000      44K   ro             GLB NX pte
0xffffffff81e0b000-0xffffffff82000000    2004K   ro                 NX pte
0xffffffff82000000-0xffffffff8214c000    1328K   RW             GLB NX pte
0xffffffff8214c000-0xffffffff8227e000    1224K   RW                 NX pte
0xffffffff8227e000-0xffffffff82400000    1544K   RW             GLB NX pte
0xffffffff82400000-0xffffffff83200000      14M   RW     PSE     GLB NX pmd
0xffffffff83200000-0xffffffffc0000000     974M                         pmd

Based on work by PaX Team and Brad Spengler.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455748879-21872-7-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Bug: 31660652
Change-Id: Iafbf7314a1106c297ea883031ee96c4f53c04a2b
(cherry picked from commit 018ef8dcf3de5f62e2cc1a9273cc27e1c6ba8de5)
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso2c.h