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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:15:43 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Keun-O Park <kpark3469@...il.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
James Morse <james.morse@....com>, Pratyush Anand <panand@...hat.com>, keun-o.park@...kmatter.ae,
AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: usercopy: Implement stack frame object validation
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 3:26 AM, Keun-O Park <kpark3469@...il.com> wrote:
> Hello Kees,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion about lkdtm. Yes, it worked correctly.
> provoke-crash# echo USERCOPY_STACK_FRAME_TO > DIRECT
> [11388.369172] lkdtm: Performing direct entry USERCOPY_STACK_FRAME_TO
> [11388.369259] lkdtm: attempting good copy_to_user of local stack
> [11388.369366] lkdtm: attempting bad copy_to_user of distant stack
> [11388.369453] usercopy: kernel memory exposure attempt detected from
> ffffffc87985fd60 (<process stack>) (32 bytes)
>
> provoke-crash# echo USERCOPY_STACK_FRAME_FROM > DIRECT
> [12687.156830] lkdtm: Performing direct entry USERCOPY_STACK_FRAME_FROM
> [12687.156918] lkdtm: attempting good copy_from_user of local stack
> [12687.156995] lkdtm: attempting bad copy_from_user of distant stack
> [12687.157082] usercopy: kernel memory overwrite attempt detected to
> ffffffc87985fd60 (<process stack>) (32 bytes)
>
> One thing I want to ask is..
> Does USERCOPY_HEAP_FLAG_FROM/TO work correctly in latest kernel?
No, this protection (the whitelisting flag) isn't implemented yet in
upstream. (You're more than welcome to dig into it, if you want!)
> Both on Pixel(v3.18) and on emulator(v4.10-rc5)
> In these two cases the bad attempt passed. I guess the code for this
> test might not be ready. Am I right?
Correct.
-Kees
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Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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