Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752935AbbKYXdH (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Nov 2015 18:33:07 -0500 Received: from smtp.outflux.net ([198.145.64.163]:42093 "EHLO smtp.outflux.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752193AbbKYXcR (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Nov 2015 18:32:17 -0500 From: Kees Cook To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Kees Cook , Andy Lutomirski , "H. Peter Anvin" , Michael Ellerman , Mathias Krause , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , x86@kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , PaX Team , Emese Revfy , kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, linux-arch Subject: [PATCH v2 2/4] introduce post-init read-only memory Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 15:31:24 -0800 Message-Id: <1448494286-16029-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 In-Reply-To: <1448494286-16029-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> References: <1448494286-16029-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> X-HELO: www.outflux.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2651 Lines: 71 One of the easiest ways to protect the kernel from attack is to reduce the internal attack surface exposed when a "write" flaw is available. By making as much of the kernel read-only as possible, we reduce the attack surface. Many things are written to only during __init, and never changed again. These cannot be made "const" since the compiler will do the wrong thing (we do actually need to write to them). Instead, move these items into a memory region that will be made read-only during mark_rodata_ro() which happens after all kernel __init code has finished. This introduces __ro_after_init as a way to mark such memory, and adds some documentation about the existing __read_mostly marking. Based on work by PaX Team and Brad Spengler. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook --- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 1 + include/linux/cache.h | 14 ++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index c4bd0e2c173c..772c784ba763 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ .rodata : AT(ADDR(.rodata) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start_rodata) = .; \ *(.rodata) *(.rodata.*) \ + *(.data..ro_after_init) /* Read only after init */ \ *(__vermagic) /* Kernel version magic */ \ . = ALIGN(8); \ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___tracepoints_ptrs) = .; \ diff --git a/include/linux/cache.h b/include/linux/cache.h index 17e7e82d2aa7..ac777fe01d92 100644 --- a/include/linux/cache.h +++ b/include/linux/cache.h @@ -12,10 +12,24 @@ #define SMP_CACHE_BYTES L1_CACHE_BYTES #endif +/* + * __read_mostly is used to keep rarely changing variables out of frequently + * updated cachelines. If an architecture doesn't support it, ignore the + * hint. + */ #ifndef __read_mostly #define __read_mostly #endif +/* + * __read_only is used to mark things that are read-only after init (i.e. + * after mark_rodata_ro() has been called). These are effectively read-only, + * but may get written to during init, so can't live in .rodata (via "const"). + */ +#ifndef __ro_after_init +#define __ro_after_init __attribute__((__section__(".data..ro_after_init"))) +#endif + #ifndef ____cacheline_aligned #define ____cacheline_aligned __attribute__((__aligned__(SMP_CACHE_BYTES))) #endif -- 1.9.1 -- 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/