linux-mm.kvack.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* [PATCH 00/23] Hardened usercopy whitelisting
@ 2017-06-19 23:36 Kees Cook
  2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 01/23] usercopy: Prepare for " Kees Cook
                   ` (24 more replies)
  0 siblings, 25 replies; 45+ messages in thread
From: Kees Cook @ 2017-06-19 23:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kernel-hardening; +Cc: Kees Cook, David Windsor, linux-mm, linux-kernel

This series is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's PAX_USERCOPY code
in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on our understanding
of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are ours and
don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.

David Windsor did the bulk of the porting, refactoring, splitting,
testing, etc; I just did some extra tweaks, hunk moving, and small
extra patches.


This updates the slab allocator to add annotations (useroffset and
usersize) to define allowed usercopy regions. Currently, hardened
usercopy performs dynamic bounds checking on whole slab cache objects.
This is good, but still leaves a lot of kernel slab memory available to
be copied to/from userspace in the face of bugs. To further restrict
what memory is available for copying, this creates a way to whitelist
specific areas of a given slab cache object for copying to/from userspace,
allowing much finer granularity of access control. Slab caches that are
never exposed to userspace can declare no whitelist for their objects,
thereby keeping them unavailable to userspace via dynamic copy operations.
(Note, an implicit form of whitelisting is the use of constant sizes
in usercopy operations and get_user()/put_user(); these bypass hardened
usercopy checks since these sizes cannot change at runtime.)

Two good examples of how much more this protects are with task_struct
(a huge structure that only needs two fields exposed to userspace)
and mm_struct (another large and sensitive structure that only needs
auxv exposed). Other places for whitelists are mostly VFS name related,
and some areas of network caches.

To support the whitelist annotation, usercopy region offset and size
members are added to struct kmem_cache. The slab allocator receives a
new function that creates a new cache with a usercopy region defined
(kmem_cache_create_usercopy()), suitable for storing objects that get
copied to/from userspace. The default cache creation function
(kmem_cache_create()) remains unchanged and defaults to having no
whitelist region.

Additionally, a way to split trivially size-controllable kmallocs away
from the general-purpose kmalloc is added.

Finally, a Kconfig is created to control slab_nomerge, since it
would be nice to make this build-time controllable.

-Kees (and David)

--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@kvack.org.  For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 45+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2017-10-21  3:04 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2017-06-19 23:36 [PATCH 00/23] Hardened usercopy whitelisting Kees Cook
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 01/23] usercopy: Prepare for " Kees Cook
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 02/23] usercopy: Enforce slab cache usercopy region boundaries Kees Cook
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 03/23] vfs: define usercopy region in names_cache slab caches Kees Cook
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 04/23] vfs: copy struct mount.mnt_id to userspace using put_user() Kees Cook
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 05/23] befs: define usercopy region in befs_inode_cache slab cache Kees Cook
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 06/23] cifs: define usercopy region in cifs_request " Kees Cook
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 07/23] exofs: define usercopy region in exofs_inode_cache " Kees Cook
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 08/23] ext2: define usercopy region in ext2_inode_cache " Kees Cook
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 09/23] ext4: define usercopy region in ext4_inode_cache " Kees Cook
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 10/23] vxfs: define usercopy region in vxfs_inode " Kees Cook
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 11/23] jfs: define usercopy region in jfs_ip " Kees Cook
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 12/23] orangefs: define usercopy region in orangefs_inode_cache " Kees Cook
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 13/23] ufs: define usercopy region in ufs_inode_cache " Kees Cook
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 14/23] fork: define usercopy region in thread_stack, task_struct, mm_struct slab caches Kees Cook
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 15/23] net: define usercopy region in struct proto slab cache Kees Cook
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 16/23] net: copy struct sctp_sock.autoclose to userspace using put_user() Kees Cook
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 17/23] dcache: define usercopy region in dentry_cache slab cache Kees Cook
2017-06-20  4:08   ` [kernel-hardening] " Eric Biggers
2017-06-28 16:44     ` Kees Cook
2017-06-28 16:55       ` Eric Biggers
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 18/23] scsi: define usercopy region in scsi_sense_cache " Kees Cook
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 19/23] xfs: define usercopy region in xfs_inode " Kees Cook
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 20/23] usercopy: convert kmalloc caches to usercopy caches Kees Cook
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 21/23] usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0 Kees Cook
2017-06-20  4:04   ` [kernel-hardening] " Eric Biggers
2017-06-28 17:03     ` Kees Cook
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 22/23] usercopy: split user-controlled slabs to separate caches Kees Cook
2017-06-20  4:24   ` [kernel-hardening] " Eric Biggers
2017-06-20  4:47   ` Eric Biggers
2017-06-20 22:27     ` Kees Cook
2017-06-20 20:24   ` Laura Abbott
2017-06-20 22:22     ` Kees Cook
2017-06-27  7:31       ` Michal Hocko
2017-06-27 22:07         ` Kees Cook
2017-06-28  8:54           ` Michal Hocko
2017-06-19 23:36 ` [PATCH 23/23] mm: Allow slab_nomerge to be set at build time Kees Cook
2017-06-20  4:09   ` [kernel-hardening] " Daniel Micay
2017-06-20 22:51     ` Kees Cook
2017-06-20  4:29   ` Eric Biggers
2017-06-20 23:09     ` Kees Cook
2017-06-20 19:41 ` [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 00/23] Hardened usercopy whitelisting Rik van Riel
2017-10-20 22:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-10-20 23:25   ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-10-21  3:04     ` Kees Cook

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).