[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 15:36:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>, keescook@...omium.org,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, re.emese@...il.com,
kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, labbott@...hat.com,
marc.zyngier@....com
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT PATCH] ARM: smp: add support for per-task stack
canaries
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On ARM, we currently only change the value of the stack canary when
> switching tasks if the kernel was built for UP. On SMP kernels, this
> is impossible since the stack canary value is obtained via a global
> symbol reference, which means
> a) all running tasks on all CPUs must use the same value
> b) we can only modify the value when no kernel stack frames are live,
> which is effectively never.
>
> So instead, use a GCC plugin to add a RTL pass that replaces each
> reference to the address of the __stack_chk_guard symbol with an
> expression that produces the address of the 'stack_canary' field
> that is added to struct thread_info. This way, each task will use
> its own randomized value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
> ---
> Known issues:
> - The plugin requires the values of THREAD_SIZE and the offset of
> stack_canary in struct thread_info at a really early stage in the
> build, so I had to redefine them in the plugin source.
Can't you rely on the asm-offsets.c mechanism before the plugin is used?
> Questions:
> - Are there any execution contexts except for the decompressor and the
> EFI stub where we should disable this? KVM perhaps?
Most certainly head-inflate-data.c... who knows if someone will use an
XIP kernel on an SMP system someday.
[...]
> +#ifdef CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_PER_TASK
> + BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct thread_info, stack_canary) != 100);
> + BUILD_BUG_ON(THREAD_SIZE != 0x2000);
You should at least define those values in a header file that gets
included by both this code and the plugin source. But asm-offsets.c
would be best.
Nicolas
Powered by blists - more mailing lists
Confused about mailing lists and their use?
Read about mailing lists on Wikipedia
and check out these
guidelines on proper formatting of your messages.
