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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 10:30:01 -0500
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net>, Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 11/16] x86/dumpstack: When OOPSing, rewind the stack
before do_exit
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 09:23:06PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> If we call do_exit with a clean stack, we greatly reduce the risk of
> recursive oopses due to stack overflow in do_exit, and we allow
> do_exit to work even if we OOPS from an IST stack. The latter gives
> us a much better chance of surviving long enough after we detect a
> stack overflow to write out our logs.
>
> I intentionally separated this from the preceding patch that
> disables do_exit-on-OOPS on IST stacks. This way, if we need to
> revert this patch, we still end up in an acceptable state wrt stack
> overflow handling.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
> ---
> arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S | 11 +++++++++++
> arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 11 +++++++++++
> arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c | 13 +++++++++----
> 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
> index 983e5d3a0d27..0b56666e6039 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
> @@ -1153,3 +1153,14 @@ ENTRY(async_page_fault)
> jmp error_code
> END(async_page_fault)
> #endif
> +
> +ENTRY(rewind_stack_do_exit)
> + /* Prevent any naive code from trying to unwind to our caller. */
> + xorl %ebp, %ebp
> +
> + movl PER_CPU_VAR(cpu_current_top_of_stack), %esi
> + leal -TOP_OF_KERNEL_STACK_PADDING-PTREGS_SIZE(%esi), %esp
> +
> + call do_exit
> +1: jmp 1b
> +END(rewind_stack_do_exit)
> diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
> index 9ee0da1807ed..b846875aeea6 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
> @@ -1423,3 +1423,14 @@ ENTRY(ignore_sysret)
> mov $-ENOSYS, %eax
> sysret
> END(ignore_sysret)
> +
> +ENTRY(rewind_stack_do_exit)
> + /* Prevent any naive code from trying to unwind to our caller. */
> + xorl %ebp, %ebp
s/ebp/rbp/g/ ?
--
Josh
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