From: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>,
Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com>,
"H . J . Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] arm64: Enable BTI for the executable as well as the interpreter
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 14:05:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10f9df55-47e4-f230-e1b4-73113daa9791@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210614223214.39011-1-broonie@kernel.org>
Hi,
On 6/14/21 5:32 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> Deployments of BTI on arm64 have run into issues interacting with
> systemd's MemoryDenyWriteExecute feature. Currently for dynamically
> linked executables the kernel will only handle architecture specific
> properties like BTI for the interpreter, the expectation is that the
> interpreter will then handle any properties on the main executable.
> For BTI this means remapping the executable segments PROT_EXEC |
> PROT_BTI.
>
> This interacts poorly with MemoryDenyWriteExecute since that is
> implemented using a seccomp filter which prevents setting PROT_EXEC on
> already mapped memory and lacks the context to be able to detect that
> memory is already mapped with PROT_EXEC. This series resolves this by
> handling the BTI property for both the interpreter and the main
> executable.
>
> This does mean that we may get more code with BTI enabled if running on
> a system without BTI support in the dynamic linker, this is expected to
> be a safe configuration and testing seems to confirm that. It also
> reduces the flexibility userspace has to disable BTI but it is expected
> that for cases where there are problems which require BTI to be disabled
> it is more likely that it will need to be disabled on a system level.
It looks like its working as expected now (the previously detailed test
is now failing) in a MDWE enviroment, and the smaps/etc looks as
expected too.
Thanks for fixing this!
tested-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
>
> v3:
> - Fix passing of properties for parsing by the main executable.
> - Drop has_interp from arch_parse_elf_property().
> - Coding style tweaks.
> v2:
> - Add a patch dropping has_interp from arch_adjust_elf_prot()
> - Fix bisection issue with static executables on arm64 in the first
> patch.
>
> Mark Brown (4):
> elf: Allow architectures to parse properties on the main executable
> arm64: Enable BTI for main executable as well as the interpreter
> elf: Remove has_interp property from arch_adjust_elf_prot()
> elf: Remove has_interp property from arch_parse_elf_property()
>
> arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h | 13 ++++++++++---
> arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 23 +++++++++++------------
> fs/binfmt_elf.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> include/linux/elf.h | 8 +++++---
> 4 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: c4681547bcce777daf576925a966ffa824edd09d
>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-14 22:32 [PATCH v3 0/4] arm64: Enable BTI for the executable as well as the interpreter Mark Brown
2021-06-14 22:32 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] elf: Allow architectures to parse properties on the main executable Mark Brown
2021-06-14 22:32 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] arm64: Enable BTI for main executable as well as the interpreter Mark Brown
2021-06-14 22:32 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] elf: Remove has_interp property from arch_adjust_elf_prot() Mark Brown
2021-06-14 22:32 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] elf: Remove has_interp property from arch_parse_elf_property() Mark Brown
2021-06-17 19:05 ` Jeremy Linton [this message]
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