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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 14:54:25 -0800
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Hoeun Ryu <hoeun.ryu@...il.com>,
PaX Team <pageexec@...email.hu>, Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>,
Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/8] x86: Implement __arch_rare_write_map/unmap()
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>> Can't we at least make this:
>>
>> struct rare_write_mapping {
>> void *addr;
>> struct arch_rare_write_state arch_state;
>> };
>>
>> static inline struct rare_write_mapping __arch_rare_write_map(void
>> *addr, size_t len);
>> static inline void __arch_rare_write_unmap(struct rare_write_mapping mapping);
>
> How do you envision this working with the more complex things I
> included in the latter patches of the series, namely doing linked list
> updates across multiple structure instances, etc?
>
> ie, poor list manipulation pseudo-code:
>
> turn off read-only;
> struct_one->next = struct_tree->node;
> struct_three->prev = struct_one->node;
> struct_two->prev = struct_two->next = NULL;
> turn on read-only;
>
> That's three separate memory areas involved...
Fair enough. That being said, how is this supposed to work on
architectures that don't have a global "disable write protection" bit?
Surely these architectures exist.
>
>> or similar, this allowing a non-terrifying implementation (e.g. switch
>> CR3 to a specialized pagetable) down the road?
>
> We'd need some kind of per-CPU mapping that other CPUs couldn't get
> at... which is kind of what the WP bit gets us already. (And ARM is
> similar: it elevates permissions on the kernel memory domain to ignore
> restrictions.)
>
>> I realize that if you get exactly the code generation you want, the
>> CR0.WP approach *might* be okay, but that seems quite fragile.
>
> I think with preempt off, barriers, and inlining, this should be pretty safe...
>
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