arm64: ascii armor the arm64 boot init stack canary
authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 21:36:26 +0000 (14:36 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 23:26:03 +0000 (16:26 -0700)
Use the ascii-armor canary to prevent unterminated C string overflows
from being able to successfully overwrite the canary, even if they
somehow obtain the canary value.

Inspired by execshield ascii-armor and Daniel Micay's linux-hardened
tree.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524155751.424-5-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/arm64/include/asm/stackprotector.h

index fe5e287dc56b7263f40146208956ee203bcd080e..b86a0865ddf16a020ca2e5cf727d92878860d4d9 100644 (file)
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ static __always_inline void boot_init_stack_canary(void)
        /* Try to get a semi random initial value. */
        get_random_bytes(&canary, sizeof(canary));
        canary ^= LINUX_VERSION_CODE;
+       canary &= CANARY_MASK;
 
        current->stack_canary = canary;
        __stack_chk_guard = current->stack_canary;