[PATCH] powerpc: Do not make the entire heap executable

[PATCH] powerpc: Do not make the entire heap executable

[Denys Vlasenko]

On 32-bit powerps the ELF PLT sections of binaries (built with --bss-plt,
or with a toolchain which defaults to it) look like this:

  [17] .sbss             NOBITS          0002aff8 01aff8 000014 00  WA  0   0  4
  [18] .plt              NOBITS          0002b00c 01aff8 000084 00 WAX  0   0  4
  [19] .bss              NOBITS          0002b090 01aff8 0000a4 00  WA  0   0  4

Which results in an ELF load header:

  Type           Offset   VirtAddr   PhysAddr   FileSiz MemSiz  Flg Align
  LOAD           0x019c70 0x00029c70 0x00029c70 0x01388 0x014c4 RWE 0x10000

This is all correct, the load region containing the PLT is marked as
executable. Note that the PLT starts at 0002b00c but the file mapping ends at
0002aff8, so the PLT falls in the 0 fill section described by the load header,
and after a page boundary.

Unfortunately the generic ELF loader ignores the X bit in the load headers
when it creates the 0 filled non-file backed mappings. It assumes all of these
mappings are RW BSS sections, which is not the case for PPC.

gcc/ld has an option (--secure-plt) to not do this, this is said to incur
a small performance penalty.

Currently, to support 32-bit binaries with PLT in BSS kernel maps entire
brk area with executable rights for all binaries, even --secure-plt ones.

Stop doing that.

Teach the ELF loader to check the X bit in the relevant load header
and create 0 filled anonymous mappings that are executable
if the load header requests that.

The patch was originally posted in 2012 by Jason Gunthorpe
and apparently ignored:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/30/138

Lightly run-tested.

Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
CC: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
CC: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h    | 10 +------
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/page_32.h |  2 --
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/page_64.h |  4 ---
 fs/binfmt_elf.c                    | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
index 56398e7..42d7ea1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
@@ -225,15 +225,7 @@ extern long long virt_phys_offset;
 #endif
 #endif
 
-/*
- * Unfortunately the PLT is in the BSS in the PPC32 ELF ABI,
- * and needs to be executable.  This means the whole heap ends
- * up being executable.
- */
-#define VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS32	(VM_READ | VM_WRITE | VM_EXEC | \
-				 VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYWRITE | VM_MAYEXEC)
-
-#define VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS64	(VM_READ | VM_WRITE | \
+#define VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS	(VM_READ | VM_WRITE | \
 				 VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYWRITE | VM_MAYEXEC)
 
 #ifdef __powerpc64__
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page_32.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page_32.h
index 6a8e179..6113fa8 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page_32.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page_32.h
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@
 #endif
 #endif
 
-#define VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS	VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS32
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE
 #define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN	L1_CACHE_BYTES
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page_64.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page_64.h
index dd5f071..52d8e9c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page_64.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page_64.h
@@ -159,10 +159,6 @@ do {						\
 
 #endif /* !CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */
 
-#define VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS \
-	(is_32bit_task() ? \
-	 VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS32 : VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS64)
-
 /*
  * This is the default if a program doesn't have a PT_GNU_STACK
  * program header entry. The PPC64 ELF ABI has a non executable stack
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index a7a28110..50006d0 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -91,14 +91,25 @@ static struct linux_binfmt elf_format = {
 
 #define BAD_ADDR(x) ((unsigned long)(x) >= TASK_SIZE)
 
-static int set_brk(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+static int set_brk(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int prot)
 {
 	start = ELF_PAGEALIGN(start);
 	end = ELF_PAGEALIGN(end);
 	if (end > start) {
-		int error = vm_brk(start, end - start);
-		if (error)
-			return error;
+		/* Map the non-file portion of the last load header. If the
+		   header is requesting these pages to be executeable then
+		   we have to honour that, otherwise assume they are bss. */
+		if (prot & PROT_EXEC) {
+			unsigned long addr;
+			addr = vm_mmap(0, start, end - start, prot,
+				MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_FIXED, 0);
+			if (BAD_ADDR(addr))
+				return addr;
+		} else {
+			int error = vm_brk(start, end - start);
+			if (error)
+				return error;
+		}
 	}
 	current->mm->start_brk = current->mm->brk = end;
 	return 0;
@@ -524,6 +535,7 @@ static unsigned long load_elf_interp(struct elfhdr *interp_elf_ex,
 	unsigned long load_addr = 0;
 	int load_addr_set = 0;
 	unsigned long last_bss = 0, elf_bss = 0;
+	int bss_prot = 0;
 	unsigned long error = ~0UL;
 	unsigned long total_size;
 	int i;
@@ -606,8 +618,10 @@ static unsigned long load_elf_interp(struct elfhdr *interp_elf_ex,
 			 * elf_bss and last_bss is the bss section.
 			 */
 			k = load_addr + eppnt->p_memsz + eppnt->p_vaddr;
-			if (k > last_bss)
+			if (k > last_bss) {
 				last_bss = k;
+				bss_prot = elf_prot;
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -626,10 +640,24 @@ static unsigned long load_elf_interp(struct elfhdr *interp_elf_ex,
 		/* What we have mapped so far */
 		elf_bss = ELF_PAGESTART(elf_bss + ELF_MIN_ALIGN - 1);
 
-		/* Map the last of the bss segment */
-		error = vm_brk(elf_bss, last_bss - elf_bss);
-		if (error)
-			goto out;
+		if (last_bss > elf_bss) {
+			/* Map the non-file portion of the last load header. If the
+			   header is requesting these pages to be executeable then
+			   we have to honour that, otherwise assume they are bss. */
+			if (bss_prot & PROT_EXEC) {
+				unsigned long addr;
+				addr = vm_mmap(0, elf_bss, last_bss - elf_bss,
+						bss_prot, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_FIXED, 0);
+				if (BAD_ADDR(addr)) {
+					error = addr;
+					goto out;
+				}
+			} else {
+				error = vm_brk(elf_bss, last_bss - elf_bss);
+				if (error)
+					goto out;
+			}
+		}
 	}
 
 	error = load_addr;
@@ -672,6 +700,7 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 	unsigned long error;
 	struct elf_phdr *elf_ppnt, *elf_phdata, *interp_elf_phdata = NULL;
 	unsigned long elf_bss, elf_brk;
+	int bss_prot = 0;
 	int retval, i;
 	unsigned long elf_entry;
 	unsigned long interp_load_addr = 0;
@@ -879,7 +908,8 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 			   before this one. Map anonymous pages, if needed,
 			   and clear the area.  */
 			retval = set_brk(elf_bss + load_bias,
-					 elf_brk + load_bias);
+					 elf_brk + load_bias,
+					 bss_prot);
 			if (retval)
 				goto out_free_dentry;
 			nbyte = ELF_PAGEOFFSET(elf_bss);
@@ -973,8 +1003,10 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 		if (end_data < k)
 			end_data = k;
 		k = elf_ppnt->p_vaddr + elf_ppnt->p_memsz;
-		if (k > elf_brk)
+		if (k > elf_brk) {
+			bss_prot = elf_prot;
 			elf_brk = k;
+		}
 	}
 
 	loc->elf_ex.e_entry += load_bias;
@@ -990,7 +1022,7 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 	 * mapping in the interpreter, to make sure it doesn't wind
 	 * up getting placed where the bss needs to go.
 	 */
-	retval = set_brk(elf_bss, elf_brk);
+	retval = set_brk(elf_bss, elf_brk, bss_prot);
 	if (retval)
 		goto out_free_dentry;
 	if (likely(elf_bss != elf_brk) && unlikely(padzero(elf_bss))) {
-- 
2.9.2

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Do not make the entire heap executable

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 11:07:21PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On 32-bit powerps the ELF PLT sections of binaries (built with --bss-plt,
> or with a toolchain which defaults to it) look like this:

Hi Denys,

Thanks for resurrecting this, I am still interested here, we have been
using this patch in our PPC & ARM32 systems since it was posted.

Benjamin gave some feedback that some small style issues might need
changing, but I never agitated enough to get feedback from mm or core,
which is really what is needed for this patch..

Jason