* [PATCH 0/1] Move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir}
@ 2018-06-20 8:57 Jun Yao
2018-06-20 8:57 ` [PATCH 1/1] arm64/mm: move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata section Jun Yao
0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Jun Yao @ 2018-06-20 8:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-arm-kernel
Cc: catalin.marinas, will.deacon, ard.biesheuvel, james.morse,
linux-kernel, kernel-hardening
This patch moves {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata
section, which makes KSMA more difficult. At the same time, it is more
concise than the previous patches[1][2]. As James Morse suggested[2],
this patch updates swapper_pg_dir through the fixmap entry.
[1] http://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2018/05/31/1
[2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10449589/
Jun Yao (1):
arm64/mm: move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata
section
arch/arm64/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 32 ++++++++++++++++++--------------
arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++----
3 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
--
2.17.1
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread* [PATCH 1/1] arm64/mm: move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata section 2018-06-20 8:57 [PATCH 0/1] Move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} Jun Yao @ 2018-06-20 8:57 ` Jun Yao 2018-06-20 10:09 ` Ard Biesheuvel 0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Jun Yao @ 2018-06-20 8:57 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-arm-kernel Cc: catalin.marinas, will.deacon, ard.biesheuvel, james.morse, linux-kernel, kernel-hardening Move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata section. And update the swapper_pg_dir by fixmap. Signed-off-by: Jun Yao <yaojun8558363@gmail.com> --- arch/arm64/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 32 ++++++++++++++++++-------------- arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++---- 3 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgalloc.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgalloc.h index 2e05bcd944c8..cc96a7e6957d 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgalloc.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgalloc.h @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ #define PGALLOC_GFP (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO) #define PGD_SIZE (PTRS_PER_PGD * sizeof(pgd_t)) +#if CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX +extern spinlock_t pgdir_lock; +#endif + #if CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS > 2 static inline pmd_t *pmd_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr) @@ -78,6 +82,21 @@ static inline void __pgd_populate(pgd_t *pgdp, phys_addr_t pudp, pgdval_t prot) static inline void pgd_populate(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgdp, pud_t *pudp) { +#if CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX + if (mm == &init_mm) { + pgd_t *pgd; + + spin_lock(&pgdir_lock); + pgd = pgd_set_fixmap(__pa_symbol(swapper_pg_dir)); + + pgd = (pgd_t *)((unsigned long)pgd + pgdp - swapper_pg_dir); + __pgd_populate(pgdp, __pa(pudp), PUD_TYPE_TABLE); + + pgd_clear_fixmap(); + spin_unlock(&pgdir_lock); + return; + } +#endif __pgd_populate(pgdp, __pa(pudp), PUD_TYPE_TABLE); } #else diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 605d1b60469c..86532c57206a 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -216,21 +216,25 @@ SECTIONS BSS_SECTION(0, 0, 0) . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); - idmap_pg_dir = .; - . += IDMAP_DIR_SIZE; -#ifdef CONFIG_UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0 - tramp_pg_dir = .; - . += PAGE_SIZE; -#endif - -#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN - reserved_ttbr0 = .; - . += RESERVED_TTBR0_SIZE; -#endif - swapper_pg_dir = .; - . += SWAPPER_DIR_SIZE; - swapper_pg_end = .; + .rodata : { + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); + idmap_pg_dir = .; + . += IDMAP_DIR_SIZE; + + #ifdef CONFIG_UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0 + tramp_pg_dir = .; + . += PAGE_SIZE; + #endif + + #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN + reserved_ttbr0 = .; + . += RESERVED_TTBR0_SIZE; + #endif + swapper_pg_dir = .; + . += SWAPPER_DIR_SIZE; + swapper_pg_end = .; + } __pecoff_data_size = ABSOLUTE(. - __initdata_begin); _end = .; diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c index 2dbb2c9f1ec1..c1aa85a6ada5 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c @@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ static pte_t bm_pte[PTRS_PER_PTE] __page_aligned_bss; static pmd_t bm_pmd[PTRS_PER_PMD] __page_aligned_bss __maybe_unused; static pud_t bm_pud[PTRS_PER_PUD] __page_aligned_bss __maybe_unused; +#ifdef CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX +DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pgdir_lock); +#endif + pgprot_t phys_mem_access_prot(struct file *file, unsigned long pfn, unsigned long size, pgprot_t vma_prot) { @@ -417,12 +421,22 @@ static void __init __map_memblock(pgd_t *pgdp, phys_addr_t start, void __init mark_linear_text_alias_ro(void) { + unsigned long size; + /* * Remove the write permissions from the linear alias of .text/.rodata + * + * We free some pages in .rodata at paging_init(), which generates a + * hole. And the hole splits .rodata into two pieces. */ + size = (unsigned long)swapper_pg_dir + PAGE_SIZE - (unsigned long)_text; update_mapping_prot(__pa_symbol(_text), (unsigned long)lm_alias(_text), - (unsigned long)__init_begin - (unsigned long)_text, - PAGE_KERNEL_RO); + size, PAGE_KERNEL_RO); + + size = (unsigned long)__init_begin - (unsigned long)swapper_pg_end; + update_mapping_prot(__pa_symbol(swapper_pg_end), + (unsigned long)lm_alias(swapper_pg_end), + size, PAGE_KERNEL_RO); } static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgdp) @@ -587,8 +601,9 @@ static void __init map_kernel(pgd_t *pgdp) */ map_kernel_segment(pgdp, _text, _etext, text_prot, &vmlinux_text, 0, VM_NO_GUARD); - map_kernel_segment(pgdp, __start_rodata, __inittext_begin, PAGE_KERNEL, - &vmlinux_rodata, NO_CONT_MAPPINGS, VM_NO_GUARD); + map_kernel_segment(pgdp, __start_rodata, __inittext_begin, + PAGE_KERNEL, &vmlinux_rodata, + NO_CONT_MAPPINGS | NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS, VM_NO_GUARD); map_kernel_segment(pgdp, __inittext_begin, __inittext_end, text_prot, &vmlinux_inittext, 0, VM_NO_GUARD); map_kernel_segment(pgdp, __initdata_begin, __initdata_end, PAGE_KERNEL, -- 2.17.1 ^ permalink raw reply related [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH 1/1] arm64/mm: move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata section 2018-06-20 8:57 ` [PATCH 1/1] arm64/mm: move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata section Jun Yao @ 2018-06-20 10:09 ` Ard Biesheuvel 2018-06-21 2:51 ` Jun Yao 0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Ard Biesheuvel @ 2018-06-20 10:09 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Jun Yao Cc: linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, James Morse, Linux Kernel Mailing List, Kernel Hardening On 20 June 2018 at 10:57, Jun Yao <yaojun8558363@gmail.com> wrote: > Move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata > section. And update the swapper_pg_dir by fixmap. > I think we may be able to get away with not mapping idmap_pg_dir and tramp_pg_dir at all. As for swapper_pg_dir, it would indeed be nice if we could keep those mappings read-only most of the time, but I'm not sure how useful this is if we apply it to the root level only. > Signed-off-by: Jun Yao <yaojun8558363@gmail.com> > --- > arch/arm64/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ > arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 32 ++++++++++++++++++-------------- > arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++---- > 3 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgalloc.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgalloc.h > index 2e05bcd944c8..cc96a7e6957d 100644 > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgalloc.h > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgalloc.h > @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ > #define PGALLOC_GFP (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO) > #define PGD_SIZE (PTRS_PER_PGD * sizeof(pgd_t)) > > +#if CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX > +extern spinlock_t pgdir_lock; > +#endif > + > #if CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS > 2 > > static inline pmd_t *pmd_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr) > @@ -78,6 +82,21 @@ static inline void __pgd_populate(pgd_t *pgdp, phys_addr_t pudp, pgdval_t prot) > > static inline void pgd_populate(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgdp, pud_t *pudp) > { > +#if CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX > + if (mm == &init_mm) { > + pgd_t *pgd; > + > + spin_lock(&pgdir_lock); > + pgd = pgd_set_fixmap(__pa_symbol(swapper_pg_dir)); > + > + pgd = (pgd_t *)((unsigned long)pgd + pgdp - swapper_pg_dir); > + __pgd_populate(pgdp, __pa(pudp), PUD_TYPE_TABLE); > + This only works for 4-level paging, but we support 2 and 3 level paging as well. > + pgd_clear_fixmap(); > + spin_unlock(&pgdir_lock); > + return; > + } > +#endif > __pgd_populate(pgdp, __pa(pudp), PUD_TYPE_TABLE); > } > #else > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S > index 605d1b60469c..86532c57206a 100644 > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S > @@ -216,21 +216,25 @@ SECTIONS > BSS_SECTION(0, 0, 0) > > . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); > - idmap_pg_dir = .; > - . += IDMAP_DIR_SIZE; > > -#ifdef CONFIG_UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0 > - tramp_pg_dir = .; > - . += PAGE_SIZE; > -#endif > - > -#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN > - reserved_ttbr0 = .; > - . += RESERVED_TTBR0_SIZE; > -#endif > - swapper_pg_dir = .; > - . += SWAPPER_DIR_SIZE; > - swapper_pg_end = .; > + .rodata : { > + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); > + idmap_pg_dir = .; > + . += IDMAP_DIR_SIZE; > + > + #ifdef CONFIG_UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0 CPP directives should start in the first column > + tramp_pg_dir = .; > + . += PAGE_SIZE; > + #endif > + > + #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN > + reserved_ttbr0 = .; > + . += RESERVED_TTBR0_SIZE; > + #endif > + swapper_pg_dir = .; > + . += SWAPPER_DIR_SIZE; > + swapper_pg_end = .; > + } > > __pecoff_data_size = ABSOLUTE(. - __initdata_begin); > _end = .; > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c > index 2dbb2c9f1ec1..c1aa85a6ada5 100644 > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c > @@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ static pte_t bm_pte[PTRS_PER_PTE] __page_aligned_bss; > static pmd_t bm_pmd[PTRS_PER_PMD] __page_aligned_bss __maybe_unused; > static pud_t bm_pud[PTRS_PER_PUD] __page_aligned_bss __maybe_unused; > > +#ifdef CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX > +DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pgdir_lock); > +#endif > + > pgprot_t phys_mem_access_prot(struct file *file, unsigned long pfn, > unsigned long size, pgprot_t vma_prot) > { > @@ -417,12 +421,22 @@ static void __init __map_memblock(pgd_t *pgdp, phys_addr_t start, > > void __init mark_linear_text_alias_ro(void) > { > + unsigned long size; > + > /* > * Remove the write permissions from the linear alias of .text/.rodata > + * > + * We free some pages in .rodata at paging_init(), which generates a > + * hole. And the hole splits .rodata into two pieces. > */ > + size = (unsigned long)swapper_pg_dir + PAGE_SIZE - (unsigned long)_text; > update_mapping_prot(__pa_symbol(_text), (unsigned long)lm_alias(_text), > - (unsigned long)__init_begin - (unsigned long)_text, > - PAGE_KERNEL_RO); > + size, PAGE_KERNEL_RO); > + > + size = (unsigned long)__init_begin - (unsigned long)swapper_pg_end; > + update_mapping_prot(__pa_symbol(swapper_pg_end), > + (unsigned long)lm_alias(swapper_pg_end), > + size, PAGE_KERNEL_RO); I don't think this is necessary. Even if some pages are freed, it doesn't harm to keep a read-only alias of them here since the new owner won't access them via this mapping anyway. So we can keep .rodata as a single region. > } > > static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgdp) > @@ -587,8 +601,9 @@ static void __init map_kernel(pgd_t *pgdp) > */ > map_kernel_segment(pgdp, _text, _etext, text_prot, &vmlinux_text, 0, > VM_NO_GUARD); > - map_kernel_segment(pgdp, __start_rodata, __inittext_begin, PAGE_KERNEL, > - &vmlinux_rodata, NO_CONT_MAPPINGS, VM_NO_GUARD); > + map_kernel_segment(pgdp, __start_rodata, __inittext_begin, > + PAGE_KERNEL, &vmlinux_rodata, > + NO_CONT_MAPPINGS | NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS, VM_NO_GUARD); Given the above, you should be able to drop this as well. > map_kernel_segment(pgdp, __inittext_begin, __inittext_end, text_prot, > &vmlinux_inittext, 0, VM_NO_GUARD); > map_kernel_segment(pgdp, __initdata_begin, __initdata_end, PAGE_KERNEL, > -- > 2.17.1 > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH 1/1] arm64/mm: move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata section 2018-06-20 10:09 ` Ard Biesheuvel @ 2018-06-21 2:51 ` Jun Yao 2018-06-21 6:39 ` Ard Biesheuvel 0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Jun Yao @ 2018-06-21 2:51 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: linux-arm-kernel, catalin.marinas, will.deacon, james.morse, linux-kernel, kernel-hardening Hi Ard, On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:09:49PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On 20 June 2018 at 10:57, Jun Yao <yaojun8558363@gmail.com> wrote: > > Move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata > > section. And update the swapper_pg_dir by fixmap. > > > > I think we may be able to get away with not mapping idmap_pg_dir and > tramp_pg_dir at all. I think we need to move tramp_pg_dir to .rodata. The attacker can write a block-mapping(AP=01) to tramp_pg_dir and then he can access kernel memory. > As for swapper_pg_dir, it would indeed be nice if we could keep those > mappings read-only most of the time, but I'm not sure how useful this > is if we apply it to the root level only. The purpose of it is to make 'KSMA' harder, where an single arbitrary write is used to add a block mapping to the page-tables, giving the attacker full access to kernel memory. That's why we just apply it to the root level only. If the attacker can arbitrary write multiple times, I think it's hard to defend. > > @@ -417,12 +421,22 @@ static void __init __map_memblock(pgd_t *pgdp, phys_addr_t start, > > > > void __init mark_linear_text_alias_ro(void) > > { > > + unsigned long size; > > + > > /* > > * Remove the write permissions from the linear alias of .text/.rodata > > + * > > + * We free some pages in .rodata at paging_init(), which generates a > > + * hole. And the hole splits .rodata into two pieces. > > */ > > + size = (unsigned long)swapper_pg_dir + PAGE_SIZE - (unsigned long)_text; > > update_mapping_prot(__pa_symbol(_text), (unsigned long)lm_alias(_text), > > - (unsigned long)__init_begin - (unsigned long)_text, > > - PAGE_KERNEL_RO); > > + size, PAGE_KERNEL_RO); > > + > > + size = (unsigned long)__init_begin - (unsigned long)swapper_pg_end; > > + update_mapping_prot(__pa_symbol(swapper_pg_end), > > + (unsigned long)lm_alias(swapper_pg_end), > > + size, PAGE_KERNEL_RO); > > I don't think this is necessary. Even if some pages are freed, it > doesn't harm to keep a read-only alias of them here since the new > owner won't access them via this mapping anyway. So we can keep > .rodata as a single region. To be honest, I didn't think of this issue at first. I later found a problem when testing the code on qemu: [ 7.027935] Unable to handle kernel write to read-only memory at virtual address ffff800000f42c00 [ 7.028388] Mem abort info: [ 7.028495] ESR = 0x9600004f [ 7.028602] Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits [ 7.028749] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ 7.028837] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 [ 7.028930] Data abort info: [ 7.029017] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x0000004f [ 7.029120] CM = 0, WnR = 1 [ 7.029253] swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp = (ptrval) [ 7.029418] [ffff800000f42c00] pgd=00000000beff6803, pud=00000000beff5803, pmd=00000000beff3803, pte=00e0000040f42f93 [ 7.029807] Internal error: Oops: 9600004f [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 7.030027] Modules linked in: [ 7.030256] CPU: 0 PID: 1321 Comm: jbd2/vda-8 Not tainted 4.17.0-rc4-02908-g0fe42512b2f0-dirty #71 [ 7.030486] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) [ 7.030708] pstate: 40400005 (nZcv daif +PAN -UAO) [ 7.030880] pc : __memset+0x16c/0x1c0 [ 7.030993] lr : jbd2_journal_get_descriptor_buffer+0x7c/0xfc [ 7.031134] sp : ffff00000a8ebbe0 [ 7.031264] x29: ffff00000a8ebbe0 x28: ffff80007c104800 [ 7.031430] x27: ffff00000a8ebd98 x26: ffff80007c4410d0 [ 7.031567] x25: ffff80007c441118 x24: 00000000ffffffff [ 7.031704] x23: ffff80007c41b000 x22: ffff0000090d9000 [ 7.031838] x21: 0000000002000000 x20: ffff80007bcee800 [ 7.031973] x19: ffff80007c4413a8 x18: 0000000000000727 [ 7.032107] x17: 0000ffff89eba028 x16: ffff0000080e2c38 [ 7.032286] x15: ffff7e0000000000 x14: 0000000000048018 [ 7.032424] x13: 0000000048018c00 x12: ffff80007bc65788 [ 7.032558] x11: ffff00000a8eba68 x10: 0000000000000040 [ 7.032709] x9 : 0000000000000000 x8 : ffff800000f42c00 [ 7.032849] x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 000000000000003f [ 7.032984] x5 : 0000000000000040 x4 : 0000000000000000 [ 7.033119] x3 : 0000000000000004 x2 : 00000000000003c0 [ 7.033254] x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff800000f42c00 [ 7.033414] Process jbd2/vda-8 (pid: 1321, stack limit = 0x (ptrval)) [ 7.033633] Call trace: [ 7.033757] __memset+0x16c/0x1c0 [ 7.033858] journal_submit_commit_record+0x60/0x174 [ 7.033985] jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0xf38/0x1330 [ 7.034115] kjournald2+0xcc/0x250 [ 7.034207] kthread+0xfc/0x128 [ 7.034295] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 [ 7.034718] Code: 91010108 54ffff4a 8b040108 cb050042 (d50b7428) [ 7.035104] ---[ end trace 26d65a14ae983167 ]--- /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables shows that: ---[ Linear Mapping ]--- 0xffff800000000000-0xffff800000080000 512K PTE RW NX SHD AF NG CON UXN MEM/NORMAL 0xffff800000080000-0xffff800000200000 1536K PTE ro NX SHD AF NG UXN MEM/NORMAL 0xffff800000200000-0xffff800000e00000 12M PMD RW NX SHD AF NG BLK UXN MEM/NORMAL 0xffff800000e00000-0xffff800000fb0000 1728K PTE ro NX SHD AF NG UXN MEM/NORMAL So I split it into pieces. Thanks, Jun ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH 1/1] arm64/mm: move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata section 2018-06-21 2:51 ` Jun Yao @ 2018-06-21 6:39 ` Ard Biesheuvel 2018-06-21 8:59 ` James Morse 0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Ard Biesheuvel @ 2018-06-21 6:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ard Biesheuvel, linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, James Morse, Linux Kernel Mailing List, Kernel Hardening On 21 June 2018 at 04:51, Jun Yao <yaojun8558363@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ard, > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:09:49PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> On 20 June 2018 at 10:57, Jun Yao <yaojun8558363@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata >> > section. And update the swapper_pg_dir by fixmap. >> > >> >> I think we may be able to get away with not mapping idmap_pg_dir and >> tramp_pg_dir at all. > > I think we need to move tramp_pg_dir to .rodata. The attacker can write > a block-mapping(AP=01) to tramp_pg_dir and then he can access kernel > memory. > Why does it need to be mapped at all? When do we ever access it from the code? >> As for swapper_pg_dir, it would indeed be nice if we could keep those >> mappings read-only most of the time, but I'm not sure how useful this >> is if we apply it to the root level only. > > The purpose of it is to make 'KSMA' harder, where an single arbitrary > write is used to add a block mapping to the page-tables, giving the > attacker full access to kernel memory. That's why we just apply it to > the root level only. If the attacker can arbitrary write multiple times, > I think it's hard to defend. > So the assumption is that the root level is more easy to find? Otherwise, I'm not sure I understand why being able to write a level 0 entry is so harmful, given that we don't have block mappings at that level. >> > @@ -417,12 +421,22 @@ static void __init __map_memblock(pgd_t *pgdp, phys_addr_t start, >> > >> > void __init mark_linear_text_alias_ro(void) >> > { >> > + unsigned long size; >> > + >> > /* >> > * Remove the write permissions from the linear alias of .text/.rodata >> > + * >> > + * We free some pages in .rodata at paging_init(), which generates a >> > + * hole. And the hole splits .rodata into two pieces. >> > */ >> > + size = (unsigned long)swapper_pg_dir + PAGE_SIZE - (unsigned long)_text; >> > update_mapping_prot(__pa_symbol(_text), (unsigned long)lm_alias(_text), >> > - (unsigned long)__init_begin - (unsigned long)_text, >> > - PAGE_KERNEL_RO); >> > + size, PAGE_KERNEL_RO); >> > + >> > + size = (unsigned long)__init_begin - (unsigned long)swapper_pg_end; >> > + update_mapping_prot(__pa_symbol(swapper_pg_end), >> > + (unsigned long)lm_alias(swapper_pg_end), >> > + size, PAGE_KERNEL_RO); >> >> I don't think this is necessary. Even if some pages are freed, it >> doesn't harm to keep a read-only alias of them here since the new >> owner won't access them via this mapping anyway. So we can keep >> .rodata as a single region. > > To be honest, I didn't think of this issue at first. I later found a > problem when testing the code on qemu: > OK, you're right. I missed the fact that this operates on the linear alias, not the kernel mapping itself. What I don't like is that we lose the ability to use block mappings for the entire .rodata section this way. Isn't it possible to move these pgdirs to the end of the .rodata segment, perhaps by using a separate input section name and placing that explicitly? We could even simply forget about freeing those pages, given that [on 4k pages] the benefit of freeing 12 KB of space is likely to get lost in the rounding noise anyway [segments are rounded up to 64 KB in size] > [ 7.027935] Unable to handle kernel write to read-only memory at virtual address ffff800000f42c00 > [ 7.028388] Mem abort info: > [ 7.028495] ESR = 0x9600004f > [ 7.028602] Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits > [ 7.028749] SET = 0, FnV = 0 > [ 7.028837] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 > [ 7.028930] Data abort info: > [ 7.029017] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x0000004f > [ 7.029120] CM = 0, WnR = 1 > [ 7.029253] swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp = (ptrval) > [ 7.029418] [ffff800000f42c00] pgd=00000000beff6803, pud=00000000beff5803, pmd=00000000beff3803, pte=00e0000040f42f93 > [ 7.029807] Internal error: Oops: 9600004f [#1] PREEMPT SMP > [ 7.030027] Modules linked in: > [ 7.030256] CPU: 0 PID: 1321 Comm: jbd2/vda-8 Not tainted 4.17.0-rc4-02908-g0fe42512b2f0-dirty #71 > [ 7.030486] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) > [ 7.030708] pstate: 40400005 (nZcv daif +PAN -UAO) > [ 7.030880] pc : __memset+0x16c/0x1c0 > [ 7.030993] lr : jbd2_journal_get_descriptor_buffer+0x7c/0xfc > [ 7.031134] sp : ffff00000a8ebbe0 > [ 7.031264] x29: ffff00000a8ebbe0 x28: ffff80007c104800 > [ 7.031430] x27: ffff00000a8ebd98 x26: ffff80007c4410d0 > [ 7.031567] x25: ffff80007c441118 x24: 00000000ffffffff > [ 7.031704] x23: ffff80007c41b000 x22: ffff0000090d9000 > [ 7.031838] x21: 0000000002000000 x20: ffff80007bcee800 > [ 7.031973] x19: ffff80007c4413a8 x18: 0000000000000727 > [ 7.032107] x17: 0000ffff89eba028 x16: ffff0000080e2c38 > [ 7.032286] x15: ffff7e0000000000 x14: 0000000000048018 > [ 7.032424] x13: 0000000048018c00 x12: ffff80007bc65788 > [ 7.032558] x11: ffff00000a8eba68 x10: 0000000000000040 > [ 7.032709] x9 : 0000000000000000 x8 : ffff800000f42c00 > [ 7.032849] x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 000000000000003f > [ 7.032984] x5 : 0000000000000040 x4 : 0000000000000000 > [ 7.033119] x3 : 0000000000000004 x2 : 00000000000003c0 > [ 7.033254] x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff800000f42c00 > [ 7.033414] Process jbd2/vda-8 (pid: 1321, stack limit = 0x (ptrval)) > [ 7.033633] Call trace: > [ 7.033757] __memset+0x16c/0x1c0 > [ 7.033858] journal_submit_commit_record+0x60/0x174 > [ 7.033985] jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0xf38/0x1330 > [ 7.034115] kjournald2+0xcc/0x250 > [ 7.034207] kthread+0xfc/0x128 > [ 7.034295] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 > [ 7.034718] Code: 91010108 54ffff4a 8b040108 cb050042 (d50b7428) > [ 7.035104] ---[ end trace 26d65a14ae983167 ]--- > > /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables shows that: > > ---[ Linear Mapping ]--- > 0xffff800000000000-0xffff800000080000 512K PTE RW NX SHD AF NG CON UXN MEM/NORMAL > 0xffff800000080000-0xffff800000200000 1536K PTE ro NX SHD AF NG UXN MEM/NORMAL > 0xffff800000200000-0xffff800000e00000 12M PMD RW NX SHD AF NG BLK UXN MEM/NORMAL > 0xffff800000e00000-0xffff800000fb0000 1728K PTE ro NX SHD AF NG UXN MEM/NORMAL > > So I split it into pieces. > > Thanks, > > Jun ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH 1/1] arm64/mm: move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata section 2018-06-21 6:39 ` Ard Biesheuvel @ 2018-06-21 8:59 ` James Morse 2018-06-21 9:29 ` Ard Biesheuvel 0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: James Morse @ 2018-06-21 8:59 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ard Biesheuvel, Jun Yao Cc: linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linux Kernel Mailing List, Kernel Hardening Hi guys, On 21/06/18 07:39, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On 21 June 2018 at 04:51, Jun Yao <yaojun8558363@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:09:49PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >>> On 20 June 2018 at 10:57, Jun Yao <yaojun8558363@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata >>>> section. And update the swapper_pg_dir by fixmap. >>>> >>> >>> I think we may be able to get away with not mapping idmap_pg_dir and >>> tramp_pg_dir at all. >> >> I think we need to move tramp_pg_dir to .rodata. The attacker can write >> a block-mapping(AP=01) to tramp_pg_dir and then he can access kernel >> memory. > Why does it need to be mapped at all? When do we ever access it from the code? (We would want to make its fixmap entry read-only too) >>> As for swapper_pg_dir, it would indeed be nice if we could keep those >>> mappings read-only most of the time, but I'm not sure how useful this >>> is if we apply it to the root level only. >> >> The purpose of it is to make 'KSMA' harder, where an single arbitrary >> write is used to add a block mapping to the page-tables, giving the >> attacker full access to kernel memory. That's why we just apply it to >> the root level only. If the attacker can arbitrary write multiple times, >> I think it's hard to defend. >> > > So the assumption is that the root level is more easy to find? > Otherwise, I'm not sure I understand why being able to write a level 0 > entry is so harmful, given that we don't have block mappings at that > level. I think this thing assumes 3-level page tables with 39bit VA. >>>> @@ -417,12 +421,22 @@ static void __init __map_memblock(pgd_t *pgdp, phys_addr_t start, >>>> >>>> void __init mark_linear_text_alias_ro(void) >>>> { >>>> + size = (unsigned long)__init_begin - (unsigned long)swapper_pg_end; >>>> + update_mapping_prot(__pa_symbol(swapper_pg_end), >>>> + (unsigned long)lm_alias(swapper_pg_end), >>>> + size, PAGE_KERNEL_RO); >>> >>> I don't think this is necessary. Even if some pages are freed, it >>> doesn't harm to keep a read-only alias of them here since the new >>> owner won't access them via this mapping anyway. So we can keep >>> .rodata as a single region. >> >> To be honest, I didn't think of this issue at first. I later found a >> problem when testing the code on qemu: > > OK, you're right. I missed the fact that this operates on the linear > alias, not the kernel mapping itself. > > What I don't like is that we lose the ability to use block mappings > for the entire .rodata section this way. Isn't it possible to move > these pgdirs to the end of the .rodata segment, perhaps by using a > separate input section name and placing that explicitly? We could even > simply forget about freeing those pages, given that [on 4k pages] the > benefit of freeing 12 KB of space is likely to get lost in the > rounding noise anyway [segments are rounded up to 64 KB in size] I assumed that to move swapper_pg_dir into the .rodata section we would need to break it up. Today its ~3 levels, which we setup in head.S, then do a dance in paging_init() so that swapper_pg_dir is always the top level. We could generate all leves of the 'init_pg_dir' in the __initdata section, then copy only the top level into swapper_pg_dir into the rodata section during paging_init(). Thanks, James ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH 1/1] arm64/mm: move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata section 2018-06-21 8:59 ` James Morse @ 2018-06-21 9:29 ` Ard Biesheuvel 2018-06-21 12:24 ` Jun Yao 2018-06-21 17:04 ` James Morse 0 siblings, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: Ard Biesheuvel @ 2018-06-21 9:29 UTC (permalink / raw) To: James Morse Cc: Jun Yao, linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linux Kernel Mailing List, Kernel Hardening On 21 June 2018 at 10:59, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > On 21/06/18 07:39, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> On 21 June 2018 at 04:51, Jun Yao <yaojun8558363@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:09:49PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >>>> On 20 June 2018 at 10:57, Jun Yao <yaojun8558363@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata >>>>> section. And update the swapper_pg_dir by fixmap. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I think we may be able to get away with not mapping idmap_pg_dir and >>>> tramp_pg_dir at all. >>> >>> I think we need to move tramp_pg_dir to .rodata. The attacker can write >>> a block-mapping(AP=01) to tramp_pg_dir and then he can access kernel >>> memory. > >> Why does it need to be mapped at all? When do we ever access it from the code? > > (We would want to make its fixmap entry read-only too) > It already is. > >>>> As for swapper_pg_dir, it would indeed be nice if we could keep those >>>> mappings read-only most of the time, but I'm not sure how useful this >>>> is if we apply it to the root level only. >>> >>> The purpose of it is to make 'KSMA' harder, where an single arbitrary >>> write is used to add a block mapping to the page-tables, giving the >>> attacker full access to kernel memory. That's why we just apply it to >>> the root level only. If the attacker can arbitrary write multiple times, >>> I think it's hard to defend. >>> >> >> So the assumption is that the root level is more easy to find? >> Otherwise, I'm not sure I understand why being able to write a level 0 >> entry is so harmful, given that we don't have block mappings at that >> level. > > I think this thing assumes 3-level page tables with 39bit VA. > The attack, you mean? Because this code is unlikely to build with that configuration, given that __pgd_populate() BUILD_BUG()s in that case. > >>>>> @@ -417,12 +421,22 @@ static void __init __map_memblock(pgd_t *pgdp, phys_addr_t start, >>>>> >>>>> void __init mark_linear_text_alias_ro(void) >>>>> { > >>>>> + size = (unsigned long)__init_begin - (unsigned long)swapper_pg_end; >>>>> + update_mapping_prot(__pa_symbol(swapper_pg_end), >>>>> + (unsigned long)lm_alias(swapper_pg_end), >>>>> + size, PAGE_KERNEL_RO); >>>> >>>> I don't think this is necessary. Even if some pages are freed, it >>>> doesn't harm to keep a read-only alias of them here since the new >>>> owner won't access them via this mapping anyway. So we can keep >>>> .rodata as a single region. >>> >>> To be honest, I didn't think of this issue at first. I later found a >>> problem when testing the code on qemu: >> >> OK, you're right. I missed the fact that this operates on the linear >> alias, not the kernel mapping itself. >> >> What I don't like is that we lose the ability to use block mappings >> for the entire .rodata section this way. Isn't it possible to move >> these pgdirs to the end of the .rodata segment, perhaps by using a >> separate input section name and placing that explicitly? We could even >> simply forget about freeing those pages, given that [on 4k pages] the >> benefit of freeing 12 KB of space is likely to get lost in the >> rounding noise anyway [segments are rounded up to 64 KB in size] > > I assumed that to move swapper_pg_dir into the .rodata section we would need to > break it up. Today its ~3 levels, which we setup in head.S, then do a dance in > paging_init() so that swapper_pg_dir is always the top level. > > We could generate all leves of the 'init_pg_dir' in the __initdata section, then > copy only the top level into swapper_pg_dir into the rodata section during > paging_init(). > Is that complexity truly justified for a security sensitive piece of code? Can't we just drop the memblock_free() and be done with it? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH 1/1] arm64/mm: move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata section 2018-06-21 9:29 ` Ard Biesheuvel @ 2018-06-21 12:24 ` Jun Yao 2018-06-21 17:04 ` James Morse 1 sibling, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: Jun Yao @ 2018-06-21 12:24 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: james.morse, linux-arm-kernel, catalin.marinas, will.deacon, linux-kernel, kernel-hardening On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 11:29:52AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On 21 June 2018 at 10:59, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> wrote: > > On 21/06/18 07:39, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > >> On 21 June 2018 at 04:51, Jun Yao <yaojun8558363@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:09:49PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > >>>> On 20 June 2018 at 10:57, Jun Yao <yaojun8558363@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> As for swapper_pg_dir, it would indeed be nice if we could keep those > >>>> mappings read-only most of the time, but I'm not sure how useful this > >>>> is if we apply it to the root level only. > >>> > >>> The purpose of it is to make 'KSMA' harder, where an single arbitrary > >>> write is used to add a block mapping to the page-tables, giving the > >>> attacker full access to kernel memory. That's why we just apply it to > >>> the root level only. If the attacker can arbitrary write multiple times, > >>> I think it's hard to defend. > >>> > >> > >> So the assumption is that the root level is more easy to find? > >> Otherwise, I'm not sure I understand why being able to write a level 0 > >> entry is so harmful, given that we don't have block mappings at that > >> level. > > > > I think this thing assumes 3-level page tables with 39bit VA. > > > > The attack, you mean? Because this code is unlikely to build with that > configuration, given that __pgd_populate() BUILD_BUG()s in that case. I think this configuration may be ok. I find that the kernel on Google pixel 2 XL is built with 3-level page tables with 39-bit VA. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH 1/1] arm64/mm: move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata section 2018-06-21 9:29 ` Ard Biesheuvel 2018-06-21 12:24 ` Jun Yao @ 2018-06-21 17:04 ` James Morse 2018-06-21 17:27 ` Ard Biesheuvel 1 sibling, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: James Morse @ 2018-06-21 17:04 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Jun Yao, linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linux Kernel Mailing List, Kernel Hardening Hi Ard, On 21/06/18 10:29, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On 21 June 2018 at 10:59, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> wrote: >> On 21/06/18 07:39, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >>> On 21 June 2018 at 04:51, Jun Yao <yaojun8558363@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:09:49PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >>>>> On 20 June 2018 at 10:57, Jun Yao <yaojun8558363@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> Move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata >>>>>> section. And update the swapper_pg_dir by fixmap. >>>>> >>>>> I think we may be able to get away with not mapping idmap_pg_dir and >>>>> tramp_pg_dir at all. >>>> >>>> I think we need to move tramp_pg_dir to .rodata. The attacker can write >>>> a block-mapping(AP=01) to tramp_pg_dir and then he can access kernel >>>> memory. >> >>> Why does it need to be mapped at all? When do we ever access it from the code? >> >> (We would want to make its fixmap entry read-only too) > > It already is. Sorry, I missed that, >>>>> As for swapper_pg_dir, it would indeed be nice if we could keep those >>>>> mappings read-only most of the time, but I'm not sure how useful this >>>>> is if we apply it to the root level only. >>>> >>>> The purpose of it is to make 'KSMA' harder, where an single arbitrary >>>> write is used to add a block mapping to the page-tables, giving the >>>> attacker full access to kernel memory. That's why we just apply it to >>>> the root level only. If the attacker can arbitrary write multiple times, >>>> I think it's hard to defend. >>> >>> So the assumption is that the root level is more easy to find? >>> Otherwise, I'm not sure I understand why being able to write a level 0 >>> entry is so harmful, given that we don't have block mappings at that >>> level. >> >> I think this thing assumes 3-level page tables with 39bit VA. > The attack, you mean? Because this code is unlikely to build with that > configuration, given that __pgd_populate() BUILD_BUG()s in that case. Yes, the attack. (I struggle to think of it as an 'attack' because you already have arbitrary write...) >>>>> @@ -417,12 +421,22 @@ static void __init __map_memblock(pgd_t *pgdp, phys_addr_t start, >>>>>> >>>>>> void __init mark_linear_text_alias_ro(void) >>>>>> { >> >>>>>> + size = (unsigned long)__init_begin - (unsigned long)swapper_pg_end; >>>>>> + update_mapping_prot(__pa_symbol(swapper_pg_end), >>>>>> + (unsigned long)lm_alias(swapper_pg_end), >>>>>> + size, PAGE_KERNEL_RO); >>>>> >>>>> I don't think this is necessary. Even if some pages are freed, it >>>>> doesn't harm to keep a read-only alias of them here since the new >>>>> owner won't access them via this mapping anyway. So we can keep >>>>> .rodata as a single region. >>>> >>>> To be honest, I didn't think of this issue at first. I later found a >>>> problem when testing the code on qemu: >>> >>> OK, you're right. I missed the fact that this operates on the linear >>> alias, not the kernel mapping itself. >>> >>> What I don't like is that we lose the ability to use block mappings >>> for the entire .rodata section this way. Isn't it possible to move >>> these pgdirs to the end of the .rodata segment, perhaps by using a >>> separate input section name and placing that explicitly? We could even >>> simply forget about freeing those pages, given that [on 4k pages] the >>> benefit of freeing 12 KB of space is likely to get lost in the >>> rounding noise anyway [segments are rounded up to 64 KB in size] >> >> I assumed that to move swapper_pg_dir into the .rodata section we would need to >> break it up. Today its ~3 levels, which we setup in head.S, then do a dance in >> paging_init() so that swapper_pg_dir is always the top level. >> >> We could generate all leves of the 'init_pg_dir' in the __initdata section, then >> copy only the top level into swapper_pg_dir into the rodata section during >> paging_init(). > Is that complexity truly justified for a security sensitive piece of > code? Wouldn't this be less complex? (I've probably explained it badly.) Today head.S builds the initial page tables in ~3 levels of swapper_pg_dir, then during paging_init() build new tables with a temporary top level. We switch to the temporary top level, then copy over the first level of swapper_pg_dir, then switch back to swapper_pg_dir. Finally we free the no-longer-used levels of swapper_pg_dir. This looks like re-inventing __initdata for the bits of page table we eventually free. What I tried to describe is building the head.S/initial-page-tables in a reserved area of the the __initdata section. We no longer need a temporary top-level, we can build the final page tables directly in swapper_pg_dir, which means one fewer rounds of cpu_replace_ttbr1(). > Can't we just drop the memblock_free() and be done with it? That works, I assumed it would be at least frowned on! Thanks, James ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH 1/1] arm64/mm: move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata section 2018-06-21 17:04 ` James Morse @ 2018-06-21 17:27 ` Ard Biesheuvel 2018-06-22 8:15 ` Jun Yao 0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread From: Ard Biesheuvel @ 2018-06-21 17:27 UTC (permalink / raw) To: James Morse Cc: Jun Yao, linux-arm-kernel, Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linux Kernel Mailing List, Kernel Hardening On 21 June 2018 at 19:04, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> wrote: > Hi Ard, > > On 21/06/18 10:29, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> On 21 June 2018 at 10:59, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> wrote: >>> On 21/06/18 07:39, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >>>> On 21 June 2018 at 04:51, Jun Yao <yaojun8558363@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:09:49PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >>>>>> On 20 June 2018 at 10:57, Jun Yao <yaojun8558363@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> Move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata >>>>>>> section. And update the swapper_pg_dir by fixmap. >>>>>> >>>>>> I think we may be able to get away with not mapping idmap_pg_dir and >>>>>> tramp_pg_dir at all. >>>>> >>>>> I think we need to move tramp_pg_dir to .rodata. The attacker can write >>>>> a block-mapping(AP=01) to tramp_pg_dir and then he can access kernel >>>>> memory. >>> >>>> Why does it need to be mapped at all? When do we ever access it from the code? >>> >>> (We would want to make its fixmap entry read-only too) >> >> It already is. > > Sorry, I missed that, > > >>>>>> As for swapper_pg_dir, it would indeed be nice if we could keep those >>>>>> mappings read-only most of the time, but I'm not sure how useful this >>>>>> is if we apply it to the root level only. >>>>> >>>>> The purpose of it is to make 'KSMA' harder, where an single arbitrary >>>>> write is used to add a block mapping to the page-tables, giving the >>>>> attacker full access to kernel memory. That's why we just apply it to >>>>> the root level only. If the attacker can arbitrary write multiple times, >>>>> I think it's hard to defend. >>>> >>>> So the assumption is that the root level is more easy to find? >>>> Otherwise, I'm not sure I understand why being able to write a level 0 >>>> entry is so harmful, given that we don't have block mappings at that >>>> level. >>> >>> I think this thing assumes 3-level page tables with 39bit VA. > >> The attack, you mean? Because this code is unlikely to build with that >> configuration, given that __pgd_populate() BUILD_BUG()s in that case. > > Yes, the attack. (I struggle to think of it as an 'attack' because you already > have arbitrary write...) > OK, so in that case, you can abuse your single arbitrary write to map an entire 1 GB block of memory with arbitrary permissions, allowing userland to take control of the contents, right? And if you know the virtual and physical addresses of swapper_pg_dir, you can make sure this block covers the entire kernel, allowing the attacker to manipulate all core kernel code and statically allocated data structures. What I don't understand about this patch is how it is sufficient to only remap swapper_pg_dir r/w for updates on kernels that use 4 level paging. > >>>>>> @@ -417,12 +421,22 @@ static void __init __map_memblock(pgd_t *pgdp, phys_addr_t start, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> void __init mark_linear_text_alias_ro(void) >>>>>>> { >>> >>>>>>> + size = (unsigned long)__init_begin - (unsigned long)swapper_pg_end; >>>>>>> + update_mapping_prot(__pa_symbol(swapper_pg_end), >>>>>>> + (unsigned long)lm_alias(swapper_pg_end), >>>>>>> + size, PAGE_KERNEL_RO); >>>>>> >>>>>> I don't think this is necessary. Even if some pages are freed, it >>>>>> doesn't harm to keep a read-only alias of them here since the new >>>>>> owner won't access them via this mapping anyway. So we can keep >>>>>> .rodata as a single region. >>>>> >>>>> To be honest, I didn't think of this issue at first. I later found a >>>>> problem when testing the code on qemu: >>>> >>>> OK, you're right. I missed the fact that this operates on the linear >>>> alias, not the kernel mapping itself. >>>> >>>> What I don't like is that we lose the ability to use block mappings >>>> for the entire .rodata section this way. Isn't it possible to move >>>> these pgdirs to the end of the .rodata segment, perhaps by using a >>>> separate input section name and placing that explicitly? We could even >>>> simply forget about freeing those pages, given that [on 4k pages] the >>>> benefit of freeing 12 KB of space is likely to get lost in the >>>> rounding noise anyway [segments are rounded up to 64 KB in size] >>> >>> I assumed that to move swapper_pg_dir into the .rodata section we would need to >>> break it up. Today its ~3 levels, which we setup in head.S, then do a dance in >>> paging_init() so that swapper_pg_dir is always the top level. >>> >>> We could generate all leves of the 'init_pg_dir' in the __initdata section, then >>> copy only the top level into swapper_pg_dir into the rodata section during >>> paging_init(). > >> Is that complexity truly justified for a security sensitive piece of >> code? > > Wouldn't this be less complex? (I've probably explained it badly.) > > Today head.S builds the initial page tables in ~3 levels of swapper_pg_dir, then > during paging_init() build new tables with a temporary top level. > We switch to the temporary top level, then copy over the first level of > swapper_pg_dir, then switch back to swapper_pg_dir. Finally we free the > no-longer-used levels of swapper_pg_dir. > > This looks like re-inventing __initdata for the bits of page table we eventually > free. > > What I tried to describe is building the head.S/initial-page-tables in a > reserved area of the the __initdata section. We no longer need a temporary > top-level, we can build the final page tables directly in swapper_pg_dir, which > means one fewer rounds of cpu_replace_ttbr1(). > Ah fair enough. So either the initial page tables are never referred to via swapper_pg_dir in the first place, or we copy the first level over from __initdata after setting it up (which is probably easier than teaching the asm code about non-consecutive page ranges). So indeed, that would be an improvement in its own right. > >> Can't we just drop the memblock_free() and be done with it? > > That works, I assumed it would be at least frowned on! > I think I prefer your suggestion above. But we do need to teach this code to deal with folded page table levels. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH 1/1] arm64/mm: move {idmap_pg_dir,tramp_pg_dir,swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata section 2018-06-21 17:27 ` Ard Biesheuvel @ 2018-06-22 8:15 ` Jun Yao 0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread From: Jun Yao @ 2018-06-22 8:15 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: james.morse, linux-arm-kernel, catalin.marinas, will.deacon, linux-kernel, kernel-hardening Hi Ard, On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 07:27:01PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On 21 June 2018 at 19:04, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> wrote: > > On 21/06/18 10:29, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > >> On 21 June 2018 at 10:59, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> wrote: > >>> On 21/06/18 07:39, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > >>>> On 21 June 2018 at 04:51, Jun Yao <yaojun8558363@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:09:49PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > >>>>>> As for swapper_pg_dir, it would indeed be nice if we could keep those > >>>>>> mappings read-only most of the time, but I'm not sure how useful this > >>>>>> is if we apply it to the root level only. > >>>>> > >>>>> The purpose of it is to make 'KSMA' harder, where an single arbitrary > >>>>> write is used to add a block mapping to the page-tables, giving the > >>>>> attacker full access to kernel memory. That's why we just apply it to > >>>>> the root level only. If the attacker can arbitrary write multiple times, > >>>>> I think it's hard to defend. > >>>> > >>>> So the assumption is that the root level is more easy to find? > >>>> Otherwise, I'm not sure I understand why being able to write a level 0 > >>>> entry is so harmful, given that we don't have block mappings at that > >>>> level. > >>> > >>> I think this thing assumes 3-level page tables with 39bit VA. > > > >> The attack, you mean? Because this code is unlikely to build with that > >> configuration, given that __pgd_populate() BUILD_BUG()s in that case. > > > > Yes, the attack. (I struggle to think of it as an 'attack' because you already > > have arbitrary write...) > > > > OK, so in that case, you can abuse your single arbitrary write to map > an entire 1 GB block of memory with arbitrary permissions, allowing > userland to take control of the contents, right? And if you know the > virtual and physical addresses of swapper_pg_dir, you can make sure > this block covers the entire kernel, allowing the attacker to > manipulate all core kernel code and statically allocated data > structures. > > What I don't understand about this patch is how it is sufficient to > only remap swapper_pg_dir r/w for updates on kernels that use 4 level > paging. > Sorry, It's my mistake. To my best knowledge, to defend 'KSMA', we need to handle these configurations: 1. ARM64_4K_PAGES && ARM64_VA_BITS_39 (PGTABLE_LEVELS = 3, 1GB block) 2. ARM64_16K_PAGES && ARM64_VA_BITS_36 (PGTABLE_LEVELS = 2, 32MB block) 3. ARM64_64K_PAGES && ARM64_VA_BITS_42 (PGTABLE_LEVELS = 2, 512MB block) If these configurations are selected, we move {idmap_pg_dir, tramp_pg_dir, reserved_ttbr0, swapper_pg_dir} to .rodata section(avoid modifying tramp_(un)map_kernel), and remap swapper_pg_dir r/w for updates. If these configurations are not selected, we just keep them as they are. Do you think this is okay? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 11+ messages in thread
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