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Kees Cook committed 018ef8dcf3d
x86/vdso: Mark the vDSO code read-only after init The vDSO does not need to be writable after __init, so mark it as __ro_after_init. The result kills the exploit method of writing to the vDSO from kernel space resulting in userspace executing the modified code, as shown here to bypass SMEP restrictions: http://itszn.com/blog/?p=21 The memory map (with added vDSO address reporting) shows the vDSO moving into read-only memory: Before: [ 0.143067] vDSO @ ffffffff82004000 [ 0.143551] vDSO @ ffffffff82006000 ---[ High Kernel Mapping ]--- 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff81000000 16M pmd 0xffffffff81000000-0xffffffff81800000 8M ro PSE GLB x pmd 0xffffffff81800000-0xffffffff819f3000 1996K ro GLB x pte 0xffffffff819f3000-0xffffffff81a00000 52K ro NX pte 0xffffffff81a00000-0xffffffff81e00000 4M ro PSE GLB NX pmd 0xffffffff81e00000-0xffffffff81e05000 20K ro GLB NX pte 0xffffffff81e05000-0xffffffff82000000 2028K ro NX pte 0xffffffff82000000-0xffffffff8214f000 1340K RW GLB NX pte 0xffffffff8214f000-0xffffffff82281000 1224K RW NX pte 0xffffffff82281000-0xffffffff82400000 1532K RW GLB NX pte 0xffffffff82400000-0xffffffff83200000 14M RW PSE GLB NX pmd 0xffffffff83200000-0xffffffffc0000000 974M pmd After: [ 0.145062] vDSO @ ffffffff81da1000 [ 0.146057] vDSO @ ffffffff81da4000 ---[ High Kernel Mapping ]--- 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff81000000 16M pmd 0xffffffff81000000-0xffffffff81800000 8M ro PSE GLB x pmd 0xffffffff81800000-0xffffffff819f3000 1996K ro GLB x pte 0xffffffff819f3000-0xffffffff81a00000 52K ro NX pte 0xffffffff81a00000-0xffffffff81e00000 4M ro PSE GLB NX pmd 0xffffffff81e00000-0xffffffff81e0b000 44K ro GLB NX pte 0xffffffff81e0b000-0xffffffff82000000 2004K ro NX pte 0xffffffff82000000-0xffffffff8214c000 1328K RW GLB NX pte 0xffffffff8214c000-0xffffffff8227e000 1224K RW NX pte 0xffffffff8227e000-0xffffffff82400000 1544K RW GLB NX pte 0xffffffff82400000-0xffffffff83200000 14M RW PSE GLB NX pmd 0xffffffff83200000-0xffffffffc0000000 974M pmd Based on work by PaX Team and Brad Spengler. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455748879-21872-7-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>