linux/fs
Denys Vlasenko 16e72e9b30 powerpc: do not make the entire heap executable
On 32-bit powerpc the ELF PLT sections of binaries (built with
--bss-plt, or with a toolchain which defaults to it) look like this:

  [17] .sbss             NOBITS          0002aff8 01aff8 000014 00  WA  0   0  4
  [18] .plt              NOBITS          0002b00c 01aff8 000084 00 WAX  0   0  4
  [19] .bss              NOBITS          0002b090 01aff8 0000a4 00  WA  0   0  4

Which results in an ELF load header:

  Type           Offset   VirtAddr   PhysAddr   FileSiz MemSiz  Flg Align
  LOAD           0x019c70 0x00029c70 0x00029c70 0x01388 0x014c4 RWE 0x10000

This is all correct, the load region containing the PLT is marked as
executable.  Note that the PLT starts at 0002b00c but the file mapping
ends at 0002aff8, so the PLT falls in the 0 fill section described by
the load header, and after a page boundary.

Unfortunately the generic ELF loader ignores the X bit in the load
headers when it creates the 0 filled non-file backed mappings.  It
assumes all of these mappings are RW BSS sections, which is not the case
for PPC.

gcc/ld has an option (--secure-plt) to not do this, this is said to
incur a small performance penalty.

Currently, to support 32-bit binaries with PLT in BSS kernel maps
*entire brk area* with executable rights for all binaries, even
--secure-plt ones.

Stop doing that.

Teach the ELF loader to check the X bit in the relevant load header and
create 0 filled anonymous mappings that are executable if the load
header requests that.

Test program showing the difference in /proc/$PID/maps:

int main() {
	char buf[16*1024];
	char *p = malloc(123); /* make "[heap]" mapping appear */
	int fd = open("/proc/self/maps", O_RDONLY);
	int len = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
	write(1, buf, len);
	printf("%p\n", p);
	return 0;
}

Compiled using: gcc -mbss-plt -m32 -Os test.c -otest

Unpatched ppc64 kernel:
00100000-00120000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                                  [vdso]
0fe10000-0ffd0000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 67898094                           /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so
0ffd0000-0ffe0000 r--p 001b0000 fd:00 67898094                           /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so
0ffe0000-0fff0000 rw-p 001c0000 fd:00 67898094                           /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so
10000000-10010000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 100674505                          /home/user/test
10010000-10020000 r--p 00000000 fd:00 100674505                          /home/user/test
10020000-10030000 rw-p 00010000 fd:00 100674505                          /home/user/test
10690000-106c0000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
f7f70000-f7fa0000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 67898089                           /usr/lib/ld-2.17.so
f7fa0000-f7fb0000 r--p 00020000 fd:00 67898089                           /usr/lib/ld-2.17.so
f7fb0000-f7fc0000 rw-p 00030000 fd:00 67898089                           /usr/lib/ld-2.17.so
ffa90000-ffac0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                                  [stack]
0x10690008

Patched ppc64 kernel:
00100000-00120000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                                  [vdso]
0fe10000-0ffd0000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 67898094                           /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so
0ffd0000-0ffe0000 r--p 001b0000 fd:00 67898094                           /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so
0ffe0000-0fff0000 rw-p 001c0000 fd:00 67898094                           /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so
10000000-10010000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 100674505                          /home/user/test
10010000-10020000 r--p 00000000 fd:00 100674505                          /home/user/test
10020000-10030000 rw-p 00010000 fd:00 100674505                          /home/user/test
10180000-101b0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
                  ^^^^ this has changed
f7c60000-f7c90000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 67898089                           /usr/lib/ld-2.17.so
f7c90000-f7ca0000 r--p 00020000 fd:00 67898089                           /usr/lib/ld-2.17.so
f7ca0000-f7cb0000 rw-p 00030000 fd:00 67898089                           /usr/lib/ld-2.17.so
ff860000-ff890000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                                  [stack]
0x10180008

The patch was originally posted in 2012 by Jason Gunthorpe
and apparently ignored:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/30/138

Lightly run-tested.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161215131950.23054-1-dvlasenk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Tested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
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9p 9p: fix a potential acl leak 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
adfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
affs vfs: remove ".readlink = generic_readlink" assignments 2016-12-09 16:45:04 +01:00
afs afs: Use core kernel UUID generation 2017-02-10 16:34:17 +00:00
autofs4 Merge uncontroversial parts of branch 'readlink' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs 2016-12-17 19:16:12 -08:00
befs befs: add NFS export support 2016-12-22 11:25:24 +00:00
bfs Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
btrfs Merge branch 'for-4.11/next' into for-4.11/linus-merge 2017-02-17 14:08:19 -07:00
cachefiles Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
ceph ceph: fix bad endianness handling in parse_reply_info_extra 2017-01-18 17:58:45 +01:00
cifs CIFS: Allow to switch on encryption with seal mount option 2017-02-01 16:46:37 -06:00
coda vfs: remove ".readlink = generic_readlink" assignments 2016-12-09 16:45:04 +01:00
configfs Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
cramfs
crypto fscrypt: properly declare on-stack completion 2017-02-06 23:45:28 -05:00
debugfs debugfs: add debugfs_lookup() 2017-02-02 10:20:16 -07:00
devpts Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
dlm ktime: Get rid of ktime_equal() 2016-12-25 17:21:23 +01:00
ecryptfs vfs: remove ".readlink = generic_readlink" assignments 2016-12-09 16:45:04 +01:00
efivarfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
efs Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
exofs locking/atomic, kref: Add kref_read() 2017-01-14 11:37:18 +01:00
exportfs exportfs: be careful to only return expected errors. 2016-10-06 09:07:44 -04:00
ext2 dax: fix build warnings with FS_DAX and !FS_IOMAP 2017-01-24 16:26:14 -08:00
ext4 mm, dax: change pmd_fault() to take only vmf parameter 2017-02-22 16:41:26 -08:00
f2fs Various cleanups for the file system encryption feature. 2017-02-20 18:22:31 -08:00
fat Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
freevxfs
fscache fscache: Fix dead object requeue 2017-01-31 13:23:09 -05:00
fuse Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-02-20 13:23:30 -08:00
gfs2 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2017-02-22 10:15:09 -08:00
hfs Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
hfsplus Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
hostfs vfs: remove ".readlink = generic_readlink" assignments 2016-12-09 16:45:04 +01:00
hpfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
hugetlbfs Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
isofs Merge branch 'for-4.10/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2016-12-13 10:19:16 -08:00
jbd2 For this cycle we add support for the shutdown ioctl, which is 2017-02-20 18:24:39 -08:00
jffs2 vfs: remove ".readlink = generic_readlink" assignments 2016-12-09 16:45:04 +01:00
jfs Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
kernfs kernfs: handle null pointers while printing node name and path 2017-02-10 16:02:26 +01:00
lockd netns: make struct pernet_operations::id unsigned int 2016-11-18 10:59:15 -05:00
minix vfs: remove ".readlink = generic_readlink" assignments 2016-12-09 16:45:04 +01:00
ncpfs Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
nfs nfs: no PG_private waiters remain, remove waker 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
nfs_common netns: make struct pernet_operations::id unsigned int 2016-11-18 10:59:15 -05:00
nfsd driver core patches for 4.11-rc1 2017-02-22 11:44:32 -08:00
nilfs2 block: Use pointer to backing_dev_info from request_queue 2017-02-02 08:20:48 -07:00
nls
notify Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs 2017-02-21 07:44:03 -08:00
ntfs Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
ocfs2 ocfs2: fix deadlock issue when taking inode lock at vfs entry points 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
omfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
openpromfs Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
orangefs Merge uncontroversial parts of branch 'readlink' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs 2016-12-17 19:16:12 -08:00
overlayfs ovl: fix possible use after free on redirect dir lookup 2017-01-18 15:19:54 +01:00
proc Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2017-02-21 12:49:56 -08:00
pstore pstore: Check for prz allocation in walker 2017-02-13 10:25:52 -08:00
qnx4
qnx6
quota Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs 2016-12-19 08:23:53 -08:00
ramfs Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
reiserfs Merge uncontroversial parts of branch 'readlink' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs 2016-12-17 19:16:12 -08:00
romfs romfs: use different way to generate fsid for BLOCK or MTD 2017-01-24 16:26:14 -08:00
squashfs Merge uncontroversial parts of branch 'readlink' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs 2016-12-17 19:16:12 -08:00
sysfs Merge branch 'for-4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2016-10-14 12:18:50 -07:00
sysv vfs: remove ".readlink = generic_readlink" assignments 2016-12-09 16:45:04 +01:00
tracefs
ubifs Various cleanups for the file system encryption feature. 2017-02-20 18:22:31 -08:00
udf udf: simplify udf_ioctl() 2017-02-03 16:24:18 +01:00
ufs Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
xfs mm, dax: change pmd_fault() to take only vmf parameter 2017-02-22 16:41:26 -08:00
aio.c aio: fix lock dep warning 2017-01-14 19:31:40 -05:00
anon_inodes.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
attr.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
bad_inode.c bad_inode: add missing i_op initializers 2016-12-09 11:57:43 +01:00
binfmt_aout.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c fs/binfmt: Convert obsolete cputime type to nsecs 2017-02-01 09:13:51 +01:00
binfmt_elf.c powerpc: do not make the entire heap executable 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
binfmt_em86.c
binfmt_flat.c
binfmt_misc.c
binfmt_script.c
block_dev.c Merge branch 'for-4.11/next' into for-4.11/linus-merge 2017-02-17 14:08:19 -07:00
buffer.c clean_bdev_aliases: Prevent cleaning blocks that are not in block range 2017-01-02 09:35:14 -07:00
char_dev.c
compat_binfmt_elf.c fs/binfmt: Convert obsolete cputime type to nsecs 2017-02-01 09:13:51 +01:00
compat_ioctl.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
compat.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
coredump.c coredump: Ensure proper size of sparse core files 2017-01-14 19:32:40 -05:00
dax.c mm, dax: change pmd_fault() to take only vmf parameter 2017-02-22 16:41:26 -08:00
dcache.c mnt: Protect the mountpoint hashtable with mount_lock 2017-01-10 13:34:43 +13:00
dcookies.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
direct-io.c do_direct_IO: Use inode->i_blkbits to compute block count to be cleaned 2017-01-10 13:29:54 -07:00
drop_caches.c
eventfd.c
eventpoll.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
exec.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
fcntl.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
fhandle.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
file_table.c constify alloc_file() 2016-12-05 19:01:16 -05:00
file.c
filesystems.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
fs_pin.c
fs_struct.c
fs-writeback.c fs/fs-writeback.c: remove redundant if check 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
inode.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
internal.h Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-12-17 18:44:00 -08:00
ioctl.c vfs: call vfs_clone_file_range() under freeze protection 2016-12-16 11:02:54 +01:00
iomap.c fs: break out of iomap_file_buffered_write on fatal signals 2017-02-03 14:13:19 -08:00
Kconfig dax: fix build warnings with FS_DAX and !FS_IOMAP 2017-01-24 16:26:14 -08:00
Kconfig.binfmt docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00
libfs.c libfs: Modify mount_pseudo_xattr to be clear it is not a userspace mount 2017-01-10 13:34:55 +13:00
locks.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
Makefile logfs: remove from tree 2016-12-14 23:48:11 -05:00
mbcache.c mbcache: document that "find" functions only return reusable entries 2016-12-03 15:55:01 -05:00
mount.h vfs: add path_is_mountpoint() helper 2016-12-03 20:51:35 -05:00
mpage.c fs: Add helper to clean bdev aliases under a bh and use it 2016-11-04 14:34:47 -06:00
namei.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
namespace.c mnt: Protect the mountpoint hashtable with mount_lock 2017-01-10 13:34:43 +13:00
no-block.c
nsfs.c net: add an ioctl to get a socket network namespace 2016-10-31 10:56:36 -04:00
open.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
pipe.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
pnode.c reorganize do_make_slave() 2016-12-16 16:30:49 -05:00
pnode.h
posix_acl.c tmpfs: clear S_ISGID when setting posix ACLs 2017-01-10 01:29:48 -05:00
proc_namespace.c
read_write.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
readdir.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
select.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
seq_file.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
signalfd.c
splice.c vfs: fix uninitialized flags in splice_to_pipe() 2017-02-16 09:09:02 -08:00
stack.c
stat.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
statfs.c vfs: misc struct path constification 2016-12-05 19:03:49 -05:00
super.c block: Use pointer to backing_dev_info from request_queue 2017-02-02 08:20:48 -07:00
sync.c
timerfd.c timerfd: Protect the might cancel mechanism proper 2017-02-10 11:15:09 +01:00
userfaultfd.c userfaultfd: shmem: allow registration of shared memory ranges 2017-02-22 16:41:28 -08:00
utimes.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
xattr.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00