[kernel-hardening] [PATCH 32/38] x86: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy

Kees Cook
2018-01-11T02:03:04Z

This whitelists the FPU register state portion of the thread_struct for
copying to userspace, instead of the default entire struct.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 8eed3f94bfc7..9ac4ac1a856b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ config X86
select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS if MMU && COMPAT
select HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES if MMU && COMPAT
select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
+ select HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_STRUCT_WHITELIST
select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD if X86_64
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index cc16fa882e3e..2b037b7fe0eb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -492,6 +492,14 @@ struct thread_struct {
*/
};

+/* Whitelist the FPU state from the task_struct for hardened usercopy. */
+static inline void arch_thread_struct_whitelist(unsigned long *offset,
+ unsigned long *size)
+{
+ *offset = offsetof(struct thread_struct, fpu.state);
+ *size = fpu_kernel_xstate_size;
+}
+
/*
* Thread-synchronous status.
*
--
2.7.4