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authorDavid Windsor <dave@nullcore.net>2017-06-10 22:50:41 -0400
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2018-01-15 12:08:03 -0800
commitf9d29946c56734e954459bc9a0e688a8ae9b4cbf (patch)
treee5753464d00f1dcc33f7419e627d7b6415296e45 /kernel/fork.c
parent07dcd7fe89938934ddad65f738bc5aac89b8e54d (diff)
fork: Define usercopy region in thread_stack slab caches
In support of usercopy hardening, this patch defines a region in the thread_stack slab caches in which userspace copy operations are allowed. Since the entire thread_stack needs to be available to userspace, the entire slab contents are whitelisted. Note that the slab-based thread stack is only present on systems with THREAD_SIZE < PAGE_SIZE and !CONFIG_VMAP_STACK. cache object allocation: kernel/fork.c: alloc_thread_stack_node(...): return kmem_cache_alloc_node(thread_stack_cache, ...) dup_task_struct(...): ... stack = alloc_thread_stack_node(...) ... tsk->stack = stack; copy_process(...): ... dup_task_struct(...) _do_fork(...): ... copy_process(...) 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.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 82f2a0441d3b..0e086af148f2 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -282,8 +282,9 @@ static void free_thread_stack(struct task_struct *tsk)
void thread_stack_cache_init(void)
{
- thread_stack_cache = kmem_cache_create("thread_stack", THREAD_SIZE,
- THREAD_SIZE, 0, NULL);
+ thread_stack_cache = kmem_cache_create_usercopy("thread_stack",
+ THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE, 0, 0,
+ THREAD_SIZE, NULL);
BUG_ON(thread_stack_cache == NULL);
}
# endif