[v9,2/6] ARM: place sigpage at a random offset above stack

Commit Message

Nathan Lynch Aug. 22, 2014, 9:52 p.m. UTC

The sigpage is currently placed alongside shared libraries etc in the
address space.  Similar to what x86_64 does for its VDSO, place the
sigpage at a randomized offset above the stack so that learning the
base address of the sigpage doesn't help expose where shared libraries
are loaded in the address space (and vice versa).

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[e-mail]>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/process.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Patch

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
index 46fbbb3701a0..9e0d931dd475 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
@@ -475,6 +475,38 @@  const char *arch_vma_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 	return is_gate_vma(vma) ? "[vectors]" : NULL;
 }
 
+/* If possible, provide a placement hint at a random offset from the
+ * stack for the signal page.
+ */
+static unsigned long sigpage_addr(const struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned int npages)
+{
+	unsigned long offset;
+	unsigned long first;
+	unsigned long last;
+	unsigned long addr;
+	unsigned int slots;
+
+	first = PAGE_ALIGN(mm->start_stack);
+
+	last = TASK_SIZE - (npages << PAGE_SHIFT);
+
+	/* No room after stack? */
+	if (first > last)
+		return 0;
+
+	/* Just enough room? */
+	if (first == last)
+		return first;
+
+	slots = ((last - first) >> PAGE_SHIFT) + 1;
+
+	offset = get_random_int() % slots;
+
+	addr = first + (offset << PAGE_SHIFT);
+
+	return addr;
+}
+
 static struct page *signal_page;
 extern struct page *get_signal_page(void);
 
@@ -488,6 +520,7 @@  int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp)
 	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
 	unsigned long addr;
+	unsigned long hint;
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (!signal_page)
@@ -496,7 +529,8 @@  int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
-	addr = get_unmapped_area(NULL, 0, PAGE_SIZE, 0, 0);
+	hint = sigpage_addr(mm, 1);
+	addr = get_unmapped_area(NULL, hint, PAGE_SIZE, 0, 0);
 	if (IS_ERR_VALUE(addr)) {
 		ret = addr;
 		goto up_fail;