From patchwork Thu Feb 21 23:44:40 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Edgecombe, Rick P" X-Patchwork-Id: 10824989 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EE1214E1 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:52:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3180131D2C for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:52:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 2524A31D30; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:52:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from mother.openwall.net (mother.openwall.net [195.42.179.200]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F76F31D2C for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:52:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 1157 invoked by uid 550); 21 Feb 2019 23:51:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact kernel-hardening-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Delivered-To: mailing list kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Received: (qmail 1084 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2019 23:51:15 -0000 X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.58,397,1544515200"; d="scan'208";a="322394901" From: Rick Edgecombe To: Andy Lutomirski , Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, Thomas Gleixner , Borislav Petkov , Nadav Amit , Dave Hansen , Peter Zijlstra , linux_dti@icloud.com, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, will.deacon@arm.com, ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, kristen@linux.intel.com, deneen.t.dock@intel.com, Nadav Amit , Rick Edgecombe Subject: [PATCH v3 09/20] x86/kprobes: Set instruction page as executable Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 15:44:40 -0800 Message-Id: <20190221234451.17632-10-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 In-Reply-To: <20190221234451.17632-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> References: <20190221234451.17632-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP From: Nadav Amit This patch is a preparatory patch for a following patch that makes module allocated pages non-executable. The patch sets the page as executable after allocation. While at it, do some small cleanup of what appears to be unnecessary masking. Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe --- arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c index 4ba75afba527..98c671e89889 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c @@ -431,8 +431,20 @@ void *alloc_insn_page(void) void *page; page = module_alloc(PAGE_SIZE); - if (page) - set_memory_ro((unsigned long)page & PAGE_MASK, 1); + if (!page) + return NULL; + + /* + * First make the page read-only, and only then make it executable to + * prevent it from being W+X in between. + */ + set_memory_ro((unsigned long)page, 1); + + /* + * TODO: Once additional kernel code protection mechanisms are set, ensure + * that the page was not maliciously altered and it is still zeroed. + */ + set_memory_x((unsigned long)page, 1); return page; } @@ -440,8 +452,12 @@ void *alloc_insn_page(void) /* Recover page to RW mode before releasing it */ void free_insn_page(void *page) { - set_memory_nx((unsigned long)page & PAGE_MASK, 1); - set_memory_rw((unsigned long)page & PAGE_MASK, 1); + /* + * First make the page non-executable, and only then make it writable to + * prevent it from being W+X in between. + */ + set_memory_nx((unsigned long)page, 1); + set_memory_rw((unsigned long)page, 1); module_memfree(page); }