From a44ca8f5a30c008b54d07b00eed4eae7f169fcd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Hansen Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:20:23 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] x86/pti: Reduce amount of kernel text allowed to be Global commit abb67605203687c8b7943d760638d0301787f8d9 Kees reported to me that I made too much of the kernel image global. It was far more than just text: I think this is too much set global: _end is after data, bss, and brk, and all kinds of other stuff that could hold secrets. I think this should match what mark_rodata_ro() is doing. This does exactly that. We use __end_rodata_hpage_align as our marker both because it is huge-page-aligned and it does not contain any sections we expect to hold secrets. Kees's logic was that r/o data is in the kernel image anyway and, in the case of traditional distributions, can be freely downloaded from the web, so there's no reason to hide it. Fixes: 8c06c7740 (x86/pti: Leave kernel text global for !PCID) Reported-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Nadav Amit Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Arjan van de Ven Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180420222023.1C8B2B20@viggo.jf.intel.com --- arch/x86/mm/pti.c | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c index f1fd52f..ae3eb4f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c @@ -430,12 +430,24 @@ static inline bool pti_kernel_image_global_ok(void) */ void pti_clone_kernel_text(void) { + /* + * rodata is part of the kernel image and is normally + * readable on the filesystem or on the web. But, do not + * clone the areas past rodata, they might contain secrets. + */ unsigned long start = PFN_ALIGN(_text); - unsigned long end = ALIGN((unsigned long)_end, PMD_PAGE_SIZE); + unsigned long end = (unsigned long)__end_rodata_hpage_align; if (!pti_kernel_image_global_ok()) return; + pr_debug("mapping partial kernel image into user address space\n"); + + /* + * Note that this will undo _some_ of the work that + * pti_set_kernel_image_nonglobal() did to clear the + * global bit. + */ pti_clone_pmds(start, end, _PAGE_RW); } @@ -458,8 +470,6 @@ void pti_set_kernel_image_nonglobal(void) if (pti_kernel_image_global_ok()) return; - pr_debug("set kernel image non-global\n"); - set_memory_nonglobal(start, (end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT); } -- 2.7.4