From: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
To: "Martin Schwidefsky" <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
"Heiko Carstens" <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
"Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
"David Howells" <dhowells@redhat.com>,
"René Nyffenegger" <mail@renenyffenegger.ch>,
"Thomas Garnier" <thgarnie@google.com>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@kernel.org>,
"Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Oleg Nesterov" <oleg@redhat.com>,
"Pavel Tikhomirov" <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.o>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Subject: [PATCH v8 4/4] arm64/syscalls: Optimize address limit check
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 11:34:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170426183425.32158-4-thgarnie@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170426183425.32158-1-thgarnie@google.com>
Disable the generic address limit check in favor of an architecture
specific optimized implementation.
The address limit is checked on each syscall return path to user-mode.
If it was changed, a generic handler is called to stop the kernel on an
explicit check.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
---
Based on next-20170426
---
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 12 ++++++++++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 3dcd7ec69bca..fe9466d3bf94 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ config ARM64
select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL
+ select ADDR_LIMIT_CHECK
select ARM_AMBA
select ARM_ARCH_TIMER
select ARM_GIC
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
index 43512d4d7df2..c895c4402d32 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -744,6 +744,8 @@ ENDPROC(cpu_switch_to)
ret_fast_syscall:
disable_irq // disable interrupts
str x0, [sp, #S_X0] // returned x0
+ ldr x2, [tsk, #TSK_TI_ADDR_LIMIT] // check addr limit change
+ tbnz x2, #63, addr_limit_fail
ldr x1, [tsk, #TSK_TI_FLAGS] // re-check for syscall tracing
and x2, x1, #_TIF_SYSCALL_WORK
cbnz x2, ret_fast_syscall_trace
@@ -771,6 +773,8 @@ work_pending:
*/
ret_to_user:
disable_irq // disable interrupts
+ ldr x2, [tsk, #TSK_TI_ADDR_LIMIT] // check addr limit change
+ tbnz x2, #63, addr_limit_fail
ldr x1, [tsk, #TSK_TI_FLAGS]
and x2, x1, #_TIF_WORK_MASK
cbnz x2, work_pending
@@ -780,6 +784,14 @@ finish_ret_to_user:
ENDPROC(ret_to_user)
/*
+ * Address limit was incorrect before returning in user-mode which could be
+ * used to elevate privileges. Call the generic handler to stop the kernel on
+ * the appropriate check. This function does not return.
+ */
+addr_limit_fail:
+ b addr_limit_check_failed
+
+/*
* This is how we return from a fork.
*/
ENTRY(ret_from_fork)
--
2.13.0.rc0.306.g87b477812d-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-26 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-26 18:34 [PATCH v8 1/4] syscalls: Verify address limit before returning to user-mode Thomas Garnier
2017-04-26 18:34 ` [PATCH v8 2/4] x86/syscalls: Optimize address limit check Thomas Garnier
2017-04-26 18:34 ` [PATCH v8 3/4] arm/syscalls: " Thomas Garnier
2017-04-26 18:34 ` Thomas Garnier [this message]
[not found] ` <20170426183425.32158-1-thgarnie-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-04-27 6:49 ` [PATCH v8 1/4] syscalls: Verify address limit before returning to user-mode Ingo Molnar
2017-04-27 14:16 ` Thomas Garnier
[not found] ` <CAJcbSZENjCgn3TNDGzCBBSOXMvbTX8mBO7Trugdb5VRzhxwmHg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-04-27 14:42 ` Thomas Garnier
[not found] ` <20170427144227.113630-1-thgarnie-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-04-28 6:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-04-28 6:33 ` Ingo Molnar
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