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Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 16:05:06 -0800
From: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@...oraproject.org>,
Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: mm: flip priority of CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
On 12/02/2015 12:27 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> The use of CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA is generally seen as an essential part of
> kernel self-protection:
> http://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2015/11/30/13
> Additionally, its name has grown to mean things beyond just rodata. To
> get ARM closer to this, we ought to rearrange the names of the configs
> that control how the kernel protects its memory. What was called
> CONFIG_ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS is really doing the work that other architectures
> call CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA.
>
> This redefines CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA to actually do the bulk of the
> ROing (and NXing). In the place of the old CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA, use
> CONFIG_DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA, since that's what the option does: adds
> section alignment for making rodata explicitly NX, as arm does not split
> the page tables like arm64 does without _ALIGN_RODATA.
>
> Also adds human readable names to the sections so I could more easily
> debug my typos, and makes CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA default "y" for CPU_V7.
>
> Results in /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables for each config state:
>
> # CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA is not set
> # CONFIG_DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA is not set
>
> ---[ Kernel Mapping ]---
> 0x80000000-0x80900000 9M RW x SHD
> 0x80900000-0xa0000000 503M RW NX SHD
>
> CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y
> CONFIG_DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA=y
>
> ---[ Kernel Mapping ]---
> 0x80000000-0x80100000 1M RW NX SHD
> 0x80100000-0x80700000 6M ro x SHD
> 0x80700000-0x80a00000 3M ro NX SHD
> 0x80a00000-0xa0000000 502M RW NX SHD
>
> CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y
> # CONFIG_DEBUG_ALIGN_RODATA is not set
>
> ---[ Kernel Mapping ]---
> 0x80000000-0x80100000 1M RW NX SHD
> 0x80100000-0x80a00000 9M ro x SHD
> 0x80a00000-0xa0000000 502M RW NX SHD
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@...oraproject.org>
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