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authorDaniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>2024-02-10 01:18:35 -0800
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2024-02-27 00:23:55 +0100
commit3c6539b4c177695aaa77893c4ce91d21dea7bb3d (patch)
treeae62c37fb38623bf9f5e1932e37bc7b307efb55b /arch/x86/entry
parentb7bcffe752957c6eac7c4cd77dd6f5d943478769 (diff)
x86/vdso: Move vDSO to mmap region
The vDSO (and its initial randomization) was introduced in commit 2aae950b21e4 ("x86_64: Add vDSO for x86-64 with gettimeofday/clock_gettime/getcpu"), but had very low entropy. The entropy was improved in commit 394f56fe4801 ("x86_64, vdso: Fix the vdso address randomization algorithm"), but there is still improvement to be made. In principle there should not be executable code at a low entropy offset from the stack, since the stack and executable code having separate randomization is part of what makes ASLR stronger. Remove the only executable code near the stack region and give the vDSO the same randomized base as other mmap mappings including the linker and other shared objects. This results in higher entropy being provided and there's little to no advantage in separating this from the existing executable code there. This is already how other architectures like arm64 handle the vDSO. As an side, while it's sensible for userspace to reserve the initial mmap base as a region for executable code with a random gap for other mmap allocations, along with providing randomization within that region, there isn't much the kernel can do to help due to how dynamic linkers load the shared objects. This was extracted from the PaX RANDMMAP feature. [kees: updated commit log with historical details and other tweaks] Signed-off-by: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Closes: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/280 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240210091827.work.233-kees@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/entry')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c57
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 55 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c
index 7645730dc228..6d83ceb7f1ba 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c
@@ -274,59 +274,6 @@ up_fail:
return ret;
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-/*
- * Put the vdso above the (randomized) stack with another randomized
- * offset. This way there is no hole in the middle of address space.
- * To save memory make sure it is still in the same PTE as the stack
- * top. This doesn't give that many random bits.
- *
- * Note that this algorithm is imperfect: the distribution of the vdso
- * start address within a PMD is biased toward the end.
- *
- * Only used for the 64-bit and x32 vdsos.
- */
-static unsigned long vdso_addr(unsigned long start, unsigned len)
-{
- unsigned long addr, end;
- unsigned offset;
-
- /*
- * Round up the start address. It can start out unaligned as a result
- * of stack start randomization.
- */
- start = PAGE_ALIGN(start);
-
- /* Round the lowest possible end address up to a PMD boundary. */
- end = (start + len + PMD_SIZE - 1) & PMD_MASK;
- if (end >= DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW)
- end = DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW;
- end -= len;
-
- if (end > start) {
- offset = get_random_u32_below(((end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT) + 1);
- addr = start + (offset << PAGE_SHIFT);
- } else {
- addr = start;
- }
-
- /*
- * Forcibly align the final address in case we have a hardware
- * issue that requires alignment for performance reasons.
- */
- addr = align_vdso_addr(addr);
-
- return addr;
-}
-
-static int map_vdso_randomized(const struct vdso_image *image)
-{
- unsigned long addr = vdso_addr(current->mm->start_stack, image->size-image->sym_vvar_start);
-
- return map_vdso(image, addr);
-}
-#endif
-
int map_vdso_once(const struct vdso_image *image, unsigned long addr)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
@@ -369,7 +316,7 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp)
if (!vdso64_enabled)
return 0;
- return map_vdso_randomized(&vdso_image_64);
+ return map_vdso(&vdso_image_64, 0);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
@@ -380,7 +327,7 @@ int compat_arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
if (x32) {
if (!vdso64_enabled)
return 0;
- return map_vdso_randomized(&vdso_image_x32);
+ return map_vdso(&vdso_image_x32, 0);
}
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION