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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 09:08:37 +0100
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
To: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Takahiro Akashi <akashi.takahiro@...aro.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, Dave Martin <dave.martin@....com>,
James Morse <james.morse@....com>, Laura Abbott <labbott@...oraproject.org>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] arm64: add VMAP_STACK and
detect out-of-bounds SP
On 18 July 2017 at 22:53, Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com> wrote:
> On 07/15/2017 05:03 PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> On 14 July 2017 at 22:27, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 03:06:06PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 01:27:14PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>>>> On 14 July 2017 at 11:48, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On 14 July 2017 at 11:32, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 07:28:48PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>> OK, so here's a crazy idea: what if we
>>>>>>>> a) carve out a dedicated range in the VMALLOC area for stacks
>>>>>>>> b) for each stack, allocate a naturally aligned window of 2x the stack
>>>>>>>> size, and map the stack inside it, leaving the remaining space
>>>>>>>> unmapped
>>>>
>>>>>>> The logical ops (TST) and conditional branches (TB(N)Z, CB(N)Z) operate
>>>>>>> on XZR rather than SP, so to do this we need to get the SP value into a
>>>>>>> GPR.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Previously, I assumed this meant we needed to corrupt a GPR (and hence
>>>>>>> stash that GPR in a sysreg), so I started writing code to free sysregs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> However, I now realise I was being thick, since we can stash the GPR
>>>>>>> in the SP:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> sub sp, sp, x0 // sp = orig_sp - x0
>>>>>>> add x0, sp, x0 // x0 = x0 - (orig_sp - x0) == orig_sp
>>>>
>>>> That comment is off, and should say x0 = x0 + (orig_sp - x0) == orig_sp
>>>>
>>>>>>> sub x0, x0, #S_FRAME_SIZE
>>>>>>> tb(nz) x0, #THREAD_SHIFT, overflow
>>>>>>> add x0, x0, #S_FRAME_SIZE
>>>>>>> sub x0, sp, x0
>>>>>
>>>>> You need a neg x0, x0 here I think
>>>>
>>>> Oh, whoops. I'd mis-simplified things.
>>>>
>>>> We can avoid that by storing orig_sp + orig_x0 in sp:
>>>>
>>>> add sp, sp, x0 // sp = orig_sp + orig_x0
>>>> sub x0, sp, x0 // x0 = orig_sp
>>>> < check >
>>>> sub x0, sp, x0 // x0 = orig_x0
>>>> sub sp, sp, x0 // sp = orig_sp
>>>>
>>>> ... which works in a locally-built kernel where I've aligned all the
>>>> stacks.
>>>
>>> FWIW, I've pushed out a somewhat cleaned-up (and slightly broken!)
>>> version of said kernel source to my arm64/vmap-stack-align branch [1].
>>> That's still missing the backtrace handling, IRQ stack alignment is
>>> broken at least on 64K pages, and there's still more cleanup and rework
>>> to do.
>>>
>>
>> I have spent some time addressing the issues mentioned in the commit
>> log. Please take a look.
>>
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git vmap-arm64-mark
>>
>
> I used vmap-arm64-mark to compile kernels for a few days. It seemed to
> work well enough.
>
Thanks for giving this a spin. Any comments on the performance impact?
(if you happened to notice any)
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