Commit-ID: c74ba8b3480da6ddaea17df2263ec09b869ac496 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/c74ba8b3480da6ddaea17df2263ec09b869ac496 Author: Kees Cook <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 14:41:15 -0800 Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> CommitDate: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 08:51:38 +0100
arch: Introduce post-init read-only memory One of the easiest ways to protect the kernel from attack is to reduce the internal attack surface exposed when a "write" flaw is available. By making as much of the kernel read-only as possible, we reduce the attack surface. Many things are written to only during __init, and never changed again. These cannot be made "const" since the compiler will do the wrong thing (we do actually need to write to them). Instead, move these items into a memory region that will be made read-only during mark_rodata_ro() which happens after all kernel __init code has finished. This introduces __ro_after_init as a way to mark such memory, and adds some documentation about the existing __read_mostly marking. This improves the security of the Linux kernel by marking formerly read-write memory regions as read-only on a fully booted up system. Based on work by PaX Team and Brad Spengler. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Brad Spengler <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]> Cc: David Brown <[email protected]> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> Cc: Emese Revfy <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Mathias Krause <[email protected]> Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> Cc: PaX Team <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: linux-arch <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> --- arch/parisc/include/asm/cache.h | 3 +++ include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 1 + include/linux/cache.h | 14 ++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/parisc/include/asm/cache.h index 3d0e17b..df0f52b 100644 --- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/cache.h +++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/cache.h @@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ #define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data..read_mostly"))) +/* Read-only memory is marked before mark_rodata_ro() is called. */ +#define __ro_after_init __read_mostly + void parisc_cache_init(void); /* initializes cache-flushing */ void disable_sr_hashing_asm(int); /* low level support for above */ void disable_sr_hashing(void); /* turns off space register hashing */ diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index c4bd0e2..772c784 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ .rodata : AT(ADDR(.rodata) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start_rodata) = .; \ *(.rodata) *(.rodata.*) \ + *(.data..ro_after_init) /* Read only after init */ \ *(__vermagic) /* Kernel version magic */ \ . = ALIGN(8); \ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___tracepoints_ptrs) = .; \ diff --git a/include/linux/cache.h b/include/linux/cache.h index 17e7e82..1be04f8 100644 --- a/include/linux/cache.h +++ b/include/linux/cache.h @@ -12,10 +12,24 @@ #define SMP_CACHE_BYTES L1_CACHE_BYTES #endif +/* + * __read_mostly is used to keep rarely changing variables out of frequently + * updated cachelines. If an architecture doesn't support it, ignore the + * hint. + */ #ifndef __read_mostly #define __read_mostly #endif +/* + * __ro_after_init is used to mark things that are read-only after init (i.e. + * after mark_rodata_ro() has been called). These are effectively read-only, + * but may get written to during init, so can't live in .rodata (via "const"). + */ +#ifndef __ro_after_init +#define __ro_after_init __attribute__((__section__(".data..ro_after_init"))) +#endif + #ifndef ____cacheline_aligned #define ____cacheline_aligned __attribute__((__aligned__(SMP_CACHE_BYTES))) #endif
