In support of usercopy hardening, this patch defines a region in the
mm_struct slab caches in which userspace copy operations are allowed.
Only the auxv field is copied to userspace.
cache object allocation:
kernel/fork.c:
#define allocate_mm() (kmem_cache_alloc(mm_cachep, GFP_KERNEL))
dup_mm():
...
mm = allocate_mm();
copy_mm(...):
...
dup_mm();
copy_process(...):
...
copy_mm(...)
_do_fork(...):
...
copy_process(...)
example usage trace:
fs/binfmt_elf.c:
create_elf_tables(...):
...
elf_info = (elf_addr_t *)current->mm->saved_auxv;
...
copy_to_user(..., elf_info, ei_index * sizeof(elf_addr_t))
load_elf_binary(...):
...
create_elf_tables(...);
This region is known as the slab cache's usercopy region. Slab caches
can now check that each dynamically sized copy operation involving
cache-managed memory falls entirely within the slab's usercopy region.
This patch is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's PAX_USERCOPY
whitelisting code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my
understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are
mine and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.
Signed-off-by: David Windsor <dave@nullcore.net>
[kees: adjust commit log, split patch, provide usage trace]
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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