[PATCH v3 0/2] provide check for ro_after_init memory sections
Provide a mechanism for other functions to verify that their arguments are read-only. This implements the first half of a suggestion made by Kees Cook for the Kernel Self Protection Project: - provide mechanism to check for ro_after_init memory areas, and reject structures not marked ro_after_init in vmbus_register() http://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2017/02/04/1 The idea is to prevent structures (including modules) that are not read-only from being passed to functions. It builds upon the functions in kernel/extable.c that test if an address is in the text section. I have dropped the third patch that uses these features to check the arguments to vmbus_register() because the maintainers have not been receptive to using it. My goal right now is to get the API right. I have test compiled this series on next-20170321 for x86. Eddie Kovsky (2): module: verify address is read-only extable: verify address is read-only include/linux/kernel.h | 2 ++ include/linux/module.h | 12 kernel/extable.c | 29 +++ kernel/module.c| 53 ++ 4 files changed, 96 insertions(+) -- 2.12.0
[PATCH v3 0/2] provide check for ro_after_init memory sections
Provide a mechanism for other functions to verify that their arguments are read-only. This implements the first half of a suggestion made by Kees Cook for the Kernel Self Protection Project: - provide mechanism to check for ro_after_init memory areas, and reject structures not marked ro_after_init in vmbus_register() http://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2017/02/04/1 The idea is to prevent structures (including modules) that are not read-only from being passed to functions. It builds upon the functions in kernel/extable.c that test if an address is in the text section. I have dropped the third patch that uses these features to check the arguments to vmbus_register() because the maintainers have not been receptive to using it. My goal right now is to get the API right. I have test compiled this series on next-20170321 for x86. Eddie Kovsky (2): module: verify address is read-only extable: verify address is read-only include/linux/kernel.h | 2 ++ include/linux/module.h | 12 kernel/extable.c | 29 +++ kernel/module.c| 53 ++ 4 files changed, 96 insertions(+) -- 2.12.0
