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authorDavid Windsor <dave@nullcore.net>2017-08-15 16:45:00 -0700
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2018-01-15 12:08:02 -0800
commit07dcd7fe89938934ddad65f738bc5aac89b8e54d (patch)
tree717298a13dce63c41306a91baf77201acc1c1b4f /kernel/fork.c
parent289a4860d1f5de35b308c1c9e7c8592022c90af9 (diff)
downloadlinux-07dcd7fe89938934ddad65f738bc5aac89b8e54d.tar.bz2
fork: Define usercopy region in mm_struct slab caches
In support of usercopy hardening, this patch defines a region in the mm_struct slab caches in which userspace copy operations are allowed. Only the auxv field is copied to userspace. cache object allocation: kernel/fork.c: #define allocate_mm() (kmem_cache_alloc(mm_cachep, GFP_KERNEL)) dup_mm(): ... mm = allocate_mm(); copy_mm(...): ... dup_mm(); copy_process(...): ... copy_mm(...) _do_fork(...): ... copy_process(...) example usage trace: fs/binfmt_elf.c: create_elf_tables(...): ... elf_info = (elf_addr_t *)current->mm->saved_auxv; ... copy_to_user(..., elf_info, ei_index * sizeof(elf_addr_t)) load_elf_binary(...): ... create_elf_tables(...); This region is known as the slab cache's usercopy region. Slab caches can now check that each dynamically sized copy operation involving cache-managed memory falls entirely within the slab's usercopy region. This patch is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's PAX_USERCOPY whitelisting code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are mine and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code. Signed-off-by: David Windsor <dave@nullcore.net> [kees: adjust commit log, split patch, provide usage trace] Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 432eadf6b58c..82f2a0441d3b 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2225,9 +2225,11 @@ void __init proc_caches_init(void)
* maximum number of CPU's we can ever have. The cpumask_allocation
* is at the end of the structure, exactly for that reason.
*/
- mm_cachep = kmem_cache_create("mm_struct",
+ mm_cachep = kmem_cache_create_usercopy("mm_struct",
sizeof(struct mm_struct), ARCH_MIN_MMSTRUCT_ALIGN,
SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_ACCOUNT,
+ offsetof(struct mm_struct, saved_auxv),
+ sizeof_field(struct mm_struct, saved_auxv),
NULL);
vm_area_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(vm_area_struct, SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_ACCOUNT);
mmap_init();