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* [PATCH 0/3] MIPS executable stack protection
@ 2014-10-04  3:17 Leonid Yegoshin
  2014-10-04  3:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] MIPS: mips_flush_cache_range is added Leonid Yegoshin
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  0 siblings, 4 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: Leonid Yegoshin @ 2014-10-04  3:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-mips, Zubair.Kakakhel, david.daney, peterz, paul.gortmaker,
	davidlohr, macro, chenhc, zajec5, james.hogan, keescook, alex,
	tglx, blogic, jchandra, paul.burton, qais.yousef, linux-kernel,
	ralf, markos.chandras, manuel.lauss, akpm, lars.persson

The following series implements an executable stack protection in MIPS.

It sets up a per-thread 'VDSO' page and appropriate TLB support.
Page is set write-protected from user and is maintained via kernel VA.
MIPS FPU emulation is shifted to new page and stack is relieved for
execute protection as is as all data pages in default setup during ELF
binary initialization. The real protection is controlled by GLIBC and
it can do stack protected now as it is done in other architectures and
I learned today that GLIBC team is ready for this.

Note: actual execute-protection depends from HW capability, of course.

This patch is required for MIPS32/64 R2 emulation on MIPS R6 architecture.
Without it 'ssh-keygen' crashes pretty fast on attempt to execute instruction
in stack.
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Leonid Yegoshin (3):
      MIPS: mips_flush_cache_range is added
      MIPS: Setup an instruction emulation in VDSO protected page instead of user stack
      MIPS: set stack/data protection as non-executable


 arch/mips/include/asm/cacheflush.h  |    3 +
 arch/mips/include/asm/mmu.h         |    2 +
 arch/mips/include/asm/page.h        |    2 -
 arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h   |    2 -
 arch/mips/include/asm/switch_to.h   |   12 ++++
 arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h |    3 +
 arch/mips/include/asm/tlbmisc.h     |    1 
 arch/mips/include/asm/vdso.h        |    2 +
 arch/mips/kernel/process.c          |    7 ++
 arch/mips/kernel/vdso.c             |   41 ++++++++++++-
 arch/mips/math-emu/dsemul.c         |  114 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 arch/mips/mm/c-octeon.c             |    8 ++
 arch/mips/mm/c-r3k.c                |    8 ++
 arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c                |   43 +++++++++++++
 arch/mips/mm/c-tx39.c               |    9 +++
 arch/mips/mm/cache.c                |    4 +
 arch/mips/mm/fault.c                |    5 ++
 arch/mips/mm/tlb-r4k.c              |   39 ++++++++++++
 18 files changed, 273 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

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* Re: [PATCH 0/3] MIPS executable stack protection
@ 2014-10-04 15:33 Leonid Yegoshin
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: Leonid Yegoshin @ 2014-10-04 15:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Peter Zijlstra
  Cc: linux-mips, Zubair Kakakhel, david.daney, paul.gortmaker,
	davidlohr, macro, chenhc, zajec5, James Hogan, keescook, alex,
	tglx, blogic, jchandra, Paul Burton, Qais Yousef, linux-kernel,
	ralf, Markos Chandras, manuel.lauss, akpm, lars.persson

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Peter Zijlstra wrote:

>> It sets up a per-thread 'VDSO' page and appropriate TLB support.

> So traditionally we've always avoided per-thread pages like that.
> What makes it worth it on MIPS?

MIPS has branch delay slots - it is an instruction after branch which is executed
before branch is taken. If branch fails due to FPU unavailability then that
instruction should be emulated as well as branch itself.
However, MIPS allows to have a customisable coprocessor 2 instructions
and it is impractical to emulate it and big amount of other traditional MIPS
instructions inside of kernel.

So, some per thread space is needed to put instruction into it, enclose it with
a return kernel call and switch temporary execution into it.

Currently, this space is space at SP register (user stack) but it prevents
switching stack as non-executable.

Handle another stack set (one stack per thread) in common user map is
impractical because of management, scalability and performance difficulties.
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2014-10-04  3:17 ` [PATCH 2/3] MIPS: Setup an instruction emulation in VDSO protected page instead of user stack Leonid Yegoshin
2014-10-04 20:00   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-05  5:52     ` Leonid Yegoshin
2014-10-06 12:29   ` Paul Burton
2014-10-06 20:42     ` Leonid Yegoshin
2014-10-06 18:05   ` David Daney
2014-10-06 20:03     ` Leonid Yegoshin
2014-10-04  3:17 ` [PATCH 3/3] MIPS: set stack/data protection as non-executable Leonid Yegoshin
2014-10-04  8:23 ` [PATCH 0/3] MIPS executable stack protection Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-04 16:03   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-04 16:17     ` Leonid Yegoshin
2014-10-04 16:27       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-04 15:33 Leonid Yegoshin

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