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authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>2021-01-29 10:19:07 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-08-04 11:56:45 +0200
commit8db77dca7e1d1d1d6aa9334207ead57853832bb7 (patch)
tree7bc2352d1da45fb92fd1878b32af630ef7521f2a /arch
parent5ed05c554005c6fc0135e9252034589aba8bee98 (diff)
ARM: ensure the signal page contains defined contents
commit 9c698bff66ab4914bb3d71da7dc6112519bde23e upstream. Ensure that the signal page contains our poison instruction to increase the protection against ROP attacks and also contains well defined contents. Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu (CIP) <nobuhiro1.iwamatsu@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/signal.c14
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
index 0a066f03b5ec..180c1782ad63 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
@@ -625,18 +625,20 @@ struct page *get_signal_page(void)
addr = page_address(page);
+ /* Poison the entire page */
+ memset32(addr, __opcode_to_mem_arm(0xe7fddef1),
+ PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(u32));
+
/* Give the signal return code some randomness */
offset = 0x200 + (get_random_int() & 0x7fc);
signal_return_offset = offset;
- /*
- * Copy signal return handlers into the vector page, and
- * set sigreturn to be a pointer to these.
- */
+ /* Copy signal return handlers into the page */
memcpy(addr + offset, sigreturn_codes, sizeof(sigreturn_codes));
- ptr = (unsigned long)addr + offset;
- flush_icache_range(ptr, ptr + sizeof(sigreturn_codes));
+ /* Flush out all instructions in this page */
+ ptr = (unsigned long)addr;
+ flush_icache_range(ptr, ptr + PAGE_SIZE);
return page;
}