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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:34:19 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: James Morse <james.morse@....com>
Cc: "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
Pratyush Anand <panand@...hat.com>, keun-o.park@...kmatter.ae
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] arm64: usercopy: Implement stack frame object validation
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 10:29 AM, James Morse <james.morse@....com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This version of Sahara's arch_within_stack_frames() series replaces the
>> open-coded stack walker with a call to arm64's existing walker.
>>
>> Patch 2 can be tested independently with this change[0].
>>
>> lkdtm's use of unallocated stack regions is a separate problem, patch 3
>> tries to address this.
>>
>> Sahara, it would be good to get your review of this!
>> I'm afraid I omitted your patch-3 as it stopped the lkdtm test from working,
>> I suspect its not tricking the compiler, but I haven't investigated.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> James
>>
>> [0] Change to lkdtm to generate accesses that overlap stack frames.
>> --------------%<--------------
>> diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm_usercopy.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm_usercopy.c
>> index 1dd611423d8b..fcbba3a14387 100644
>> --- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm_usercopy.c
>> +++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm_usercopy.c
>> @@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ static noinline void do_usercopy_stack(bool to_user, bool bad_frame)
>>
>> /* This is a pointer to outside our current stack frame. */
>> if (bad_frame) {
>> - bad_stack = do_usercopy_stack_callee((uintptr_t)&bad_stack);
>> + bad_stack = __builtin_frame_address(0);
>> + bad_stack -= sizeof(good_stack)/2;
>
> Ah, sneaky, yeah, that'll work nicely.
>
> (Though it should likely get wrapped in a CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP/DOWN test...)
Is this still in progress? Seemed like it was very close?
-Kees
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Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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