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author | Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com> | 2018-08-17 01:16:58 +0300 |
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committer | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2018-09-04 10:35:47 -0700 |
commit | afaef01c001537fa97a25092d7f54d764dc7d8c1 (patch) | |
tree | 199a05427ea4c1e0c735058f322a5b21625b9ecd /kernel/stackleak.c | |
parent | 57361846b52bc686112da6ca5368d11210796804 (diff) | |
download | linux-afaef01c001537fa97a25092d7f54d764dc7d8c1.tar.bz2 |
x86/entry: Add STACKLEAK erasing the kernel stack at the end of syscalls
The STACKLEAK feature (initially developed by PaX Team) has the following
benefits:
1. Reduces the information that can be revealed through kernel stack leak
bugs. The idea of erasing the thread stack at the end of syscalls is
similar to CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING and memzero_explicit() in kernel
crypto, which all comply with FDP_RIP.2 (Full Residual Information
Protection) of the Common Criteria standard.
2. Blocks some uninitialized stack variable attacks (e.g. CVE-2017-17712,
CVE-2010-2963). That kind of bugs should be killed by improving C
compilers in future, which might take a long time.
This commit introduces the code filling the used part of the kernel
stack with a poison value before returning to userspace. Full
STACKLEAK feature also contains the gcc plugin which comes in a
separate commit.
The STACKLEAK feature is ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
https://grsecurity.net/
https://pax.grsecurity.net/
This code is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's 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.
Performance impact:
Hardware: Intel Core i7-4770, 16 GB RAM
Test #1: building the Linux kernel on a single core
0.91% slowdown
Test #2: hackbench -s 4096 -l 2000 -g 15 -f 25 -P
4.2% slowdown
So the STACKLEAK description in Kconfig includes: "The tradeoff is the
performance impact: on a single CPU system kernel compilation sees a 1%
slowdown, other systems and workloads may vary and you are advised to
test this feature on your expected workload before deploying it".
Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/stackleak.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/stackleak.c | 62 |
1 files changed, 62 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/stackleak.c b/kernel/stackleak.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..deba0d8992f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/stackleak.c @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +/* + * This code fills the used part of the kernel stack with a poison value + * before returning to userspace. It's part of the STACKLEAK feature + * ported from grsecurity/PaX. + * + * Author: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com> + * + * STACKLEAK reduces the information which kernel stack leak bugs can + * reveal and blocks some uninitialized stack variable attacks. + */ + +#include <linux/stackleak.h> + +asmlinkage void stackleak_erase(void) +{ + /* It would be nice not to have 'kstack_ptr' and 'boundary' on stack */ + unsigned long kstack_ptr = current->lowest_stack; + unsigned long boundary = (unsigned long)end_of_stack(current); + unsigned int poison_count = 0; + const unsigned int depth = STACKLEAK_SEARCH_DEPTH / sizeof(unsigned long); + + /* Check that 'lowest_stack' value is sane */ + if (unlikely(kstack_ptr - boundary >= THREAD_SIZE)) + kstack_ptr = boundary; + + /* Search for the poison value in the kernel stack */ + while (kstack_ptr > boundary && poison_count <= depth) { + if (*(unsigned long *)kstack_ptr == STACKLEAK_POISON) + poison_count++; + else + poison_count = 0; + + kstack_ptr -= sizeof(unsigned long); + } + + /* + * One 'long int' at the bottom of the thread stack is reserved and + * should not be poisoned (see CONFIG_SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK=y). + */ + if (kstack_ptr == boundary) + kstack_ptr += sizeof(unsigned long); + + /* + * Now write the poison value to the kernel stack. Start from + * 'kstack_ptr' and move up till the new 'boundary'. We assume that + * the stack pointer doesn't change when we write poison. + */ + if (on_thread_stack()) + boundary = current_stack_pointer; + else + boundary = current_top_of_stack(); + + while (kstack_ptr < boundary) { + *(unsigned long *)kstack_ptr = STACKLEAK_POISON; + kstack_ptr += sizeof(unsigned long); + } + + /* Reset the 'lowest_stack' value for the next syscall */ + current->lowest_stack = current_top_of_stack() - THREAD_SIZE/64; +} + |