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author | David Windsor <dave@nullcore.net> | 2017-06-10 22:50:41 -0400 |
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committer | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2018-01-15 12:08:03 -0800 |
commit | f9d29946c56734e954459bc9a0e688a8ae9b4cbf (patch) | |
tree | e5753464d00f1dcc33f7419e627d7b6415296e45 /kernel/fork.c | |
parent | 07dcd7fe89938934ddad65f738bc5aac89b8e54d (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.c | 5 |
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 |