[kernel-hardening] [PATCH 29/38] fork: Define usercopy region in mm_struct slab caches

Kees Cook
2018-01-11T02:03:01Z

From: David Windsor <dave@nullcore.net>

In support of usercopy hardening, this patch defines a region in the
mm_struct slab caches in which userspace copy operations are allowed.
Only the auxv field is copied to userspace.

cache object allocation:
kernel/fork.c:
#define allocate_mm() (kmem_cache_alloc(mm_cachep, GFP_KERNEL))

dup_mm():
...
mm = allocate_mm();

copy_mm(...):
...
dup_mm();

copy_process(...):
...
copy_mm(...)

_do_fork(...):
...
copy_process(...)

example usage trace:

fs/binfmt_elf.c:
create_elf_tables(...):
...
elf_info = (elf_addr_t *)current->mm->saved_auxv;
...
copy_to_user(..., elf_info, ei_index * sizeof(elf_addr_t))

load_elf_binary(...):
...
create_elf_tables(...);

This region is known as the slab cache's usercopy region. Slab caches
can now check that each dynamically sized copy operation involving
cache-managed memory falls entirely within the slab's usercopy region.

This patch is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's PAX_USERCOPY
whitelisting code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my
understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are
mine and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.

Signed-off-by: David Windsor <dave@nullcore.net>
[kees: adjust commit log, split patch, provide usage trace]
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
---
kernel/fork.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 432eadf6b58c..82f2a0441d3b 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2225,9 +2225,11 @@ void __init proc_caches_init(void)
* maximum number of CPU's we can ever have. The cpumask_allocation
* is at the end of the structure, exactly for that reason.
*/
- mm_cachep = kmem_cache_create("mm_struct",
+ mm_cachep = kmem_cache_create_usercopy("mm_struct",
sizeof(struct mm_struct), ARCH_MIN_MMSTRUCT_ALIGN,
SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_ACCOUNT,
+ offsetof(struct mm_struct, saved_auxv),
+ sizeof_field(struct mm_struct, saved_auxv),
NULL);
vm_area_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(vm_area_struct, SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_ACCOUNT);
mmap_init();
--
2.7.4