Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757608AbbKFTME (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Nov 2015 14:12:04 -0500 Received: from mail-ig0-f175.google.com ([209.85.213.175]:38256 "EHLO mail-ig0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751046AbbKFTMC (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Nov 2015 14:12:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1446685239-28522-1-git-send-email-labbott@fedoraproject.org> <20151105094615.GP8644@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <563B81DA.2080409@redhat.com> <20151105162719.GQ8644@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <563BFCC4.8050705@redhat.com> <563CF510.9080506@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 11:12:00 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: EFdJHpG-zmg8egvyzbCu6Rr7fe8 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: Use kernel mm when updating section permissions From: Kees Cook To: Kevin Hilman , info@kernelci.org Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , Laura Abbott , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , LKML , Linux-MM , Laura Abbott , Shuah Khan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 9351 Lines: 245 On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Kees Cook wrote: > On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Laura Abbott wrote: >> On 11/05/2015 05:15 PM, Kees Cook wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Laura Abbott wrote: >>>> >>>> On 11/05/2015 08:27 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 08:20:42AM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 11/05/2015 01:46 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 05:00:39PM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Currently, read only permissions are not being applied even >>>>>>>> when CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA is set. This is because section_update >>>>>>>> uses current->mm for adjusting the page tables. current->mm >>>>>>>> need not be equivalent to the kernel version. Use pgd_offset_k >>>>>>>> to get the proper page directory for updating. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> What are you trying to achieve here? You can't use these functions >>>>>>> at run time (after the first thread has been spawned) to change >>>>>>> permissions, because there will be multiple copies of the kernel >>>>>>> section mappings, and those copies will not get updated. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> In any case, this change will probably break kexec and ftrace, as >>>>>>> the running thread will no longer see the updated page tables. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I think I was hitting that exact problem with multiple copies >>>>>> not getting updated. The section_update code was being called >>>>>> and I was seeing the tables get updated but nothing was being >>>>>> applied when I tried to write to text or check the debugfs >>>>>> page table. The current flow is: >>>>>> >>>>>> rest_init -> kernel_thread(kernel_init) and from that thread >>>>>> mark_rodata_ro. So mark_rodata_ro is always going to happen >>>>>> in a thread. >>>>>> >>>>>> Do we need to update for both init_mm and the first running >>>>>> thread? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The "first running thread" is merely coincidental for things like kexec. >>>>> >>>>> Hmm. Actually, I think the existing code _should_ be fine. At the >>>>> point where mark_rodata_ro() is, we should still be using init_mm, so >>>>> updating the current threads page tables should actually be updating >>>>> the swapper_pg_dir. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> That doesn't seem to hold true. Based on what I'm seeing, we lose >>>> the the guarantee of init_mm after the first exec. If usermodehelper >>>> gets called to load a module, that triggers an exec and the kernel >>>> thread is no longer using init_mm after that. I'm testing with the >>>> multi-v7 defconfig which uses the smsc911x driver which loads a >>>> module during initcall. That gets called before mark_rodata_ro so >>>> the init_mm is never updated. I verified that disabling smsc911x >>>> makes things work as expected. I suspect the testing was never done >>>> with a driver that tried to call usermodehelper during init time. >>> >>> >>> Ooooh. Nice catch. Yeah, my testing didn't include that case. >>> >>>> I got as far as narrowing it down that it happens after the >>>> usermodehelper >>>> but I wasn't able to pinpoint where exactly the switch happened. It seems >>>> like we need to have the page tables set up before any initcalls >>>> happen otherwise we risk having an exec create stray processes which we >>>> can't update. >>> >>> >>> Can we just make mark_rodata_ro() a no-op and do the RO setting >>> earlier when we do the NX setting? >>> >> >> Unfortunately no. The time we are doing the nx setting is before we've >> finished >> with the initmem so we need the initmem to be finished and freed before we >> can >> mark anything RO. >> >> More importantly, the NX settings are also not getting set. Compare before: >> >> ---[ Kernel Mapping ]--- >> 0xc0000000-0xc0300000 3M RW NX >> 0xc0300000-0xc1300000 16M RW x >> 0xc1300000-0xcc000000 173M RW NX >> 0xcc000000-0xcc040000 256K RW NX MEM/BUFFERABLE/WC >> 0xcc040000-0xcc100000 768K RW NX MEM/CACHED/WBRA >> 0xcc100000-0xcc280000 1536K RW NX MEM/BUFFERABLE/WC >> 0xcc280000-0xd0000000 62976K RW NX MEM/CACHED/WBRA >> 0xd0000000-0xd0200000 2M RW NX >> >> and after >> >> ---[ Kernel Mapping ]--- >> 0xc0000000-0xc0300000 3M RW NX >> 0xc0300000-0xc0c00000 9M ro x >> 0xc0c00000-0xc1100000 5M ro NX >> 0xc1100000-0xcc000000 175M RW NX >> 0xcc000000-0xcc040000 256K RW NX MEM/BUFFERABLE/WC >> 0xcc040000-0xcc100000 768K RW NX MEM/CACHED/WBRA >> 0xcc100000-0xcc280000 1536K RW NX MEM/BUFFERABLE/WC >> 0xcc280000-0xd0000000 62976K RW NX MEM/CACHED/WBRA >> 0xd0000000-0xd0200000 2M RW NX >> >> >> with my test patch. I think setting both current->active_mm and &init_mm >> is sufficient. Maybe explicitly setting swapper_pg_dir would be cleaner? >> >> Is there a test that should be running in a CI somewhere to catch cases like >> this where the permissions are not working as expected > > I wrote these for lkdtm -- actually just mentioned it here: > http://lwn.net/Articles/663531/ > > EXEC_DATA > EXEC_STACK > EXEC_KMALLOC > EXEC_VMALLOC > EXEC_USERSPACE > ACCESS_USERSPACE > WRITE_RO > WRITE_KERN > > Each of those should Oops the kernel if things are working correctly. > I'm not aware of a public CI that currently handles checking for > expected Oops via lkdtm. > > The other tests I ran when building this were to turn ftrace on and > off. If that works for you, then this patch seems fine. (AIUI, the > code would be unchanged from original when running ftrace, so I would > expect this to work.) Hi Kevin and Kernel CI folks, Could lkdtm get added to the kernel-CI workflows? Extracting and validating Oops details when poking lkdtm would be extremely valuable for these cases. :) -Kees > > -Kees > >> >> My test patch that seems to be working: >> >> ----8<----- >> >> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/init.c b/arch/arm/mm/init.c >> index 8a63b4c..6276b234 100644 >> --- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c >> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c >> @@ -627,12 +627,10 @@ static struct section_perm ro_perms[] = { >> * safe to be called with preemption disabled, as under stop_machine(). >> */ >> static inline void section_update(unsigned long addr, pmdval_t mask, >> - pmdval_t prot) >> + pmdval_t prot, struct mm_struct *mm) >> { >> - struct mm_struct *mm; >> pmd_t *pmd; >> - mm = current->active_mm; >> pmd = pmd_offset(pud_offset(pgd_offset(mm, addr), addr), addr); >> #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_LPAE >> @@ -656,7 +654,7 @@ static inline bool arch_has_strict_perms(void) >> return !!(get_cr() & CR_XP); >> } >> -#define set_section_perms(perms, field) { >> \ >> +#define set_section_perms(perms, field, all) { \ >> size_t i; \ >> unsigned long addr; \ >> \ >> @@ -674,31 +672,35 @@ static inline bool arch_has_strict_perms(void) >> \ >> for (addr = perms[i].start; \ >> addr < perms[i].end; \ >> - addr += SECTION_SIZE) \ >> + addr += SECTION_SIZE) { \ >> section_update(addr, perms[i].mask, \ >> - perms[i].field); \ >> + perms[i].field, current->active_mm); >> \ >> + if (all) \ >> + section_update(addr, perms[i].mask, \ >> + perms[i].field, &init_mm); \ >> + } \ >> } \ >> } >> -static inline void fix_kernmem_perms(void) >> +void fix_kernmem_perms(void) >> { >> - set_section_perms(nx_perms, prot); >> + set_section_perms(nx_perms, prot, true); >> } >> #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA >> void mark_rodata_ro(void) >> { >> - set_section_perms(ro_perms, prot); >> + set_section_perms(ro_perms, prot, true); >> } >> void set_kernel_text_rw(void) >> { >> - set_section_perms(ro_perms, clear); >> + set_section_perms(ro_perms, clear, false); >> } >> void set_kernel_text_ro(void) >> { >> - set_section_perms(ro_perms, prot); >> + set_section_perms(ro_perms, prot, false); >> } >> #endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA */ >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Kees Cook > Chrome OS Security -- Kees Cook Chrome OS Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/