Re: [PATCH v2 13/13] lkdtm: Add a test for function descriptors protection

Christophe Leroy
2021-10-16T06:28:15Z

Le 15/10/2021 à 23:35, Kees Cook a écrit :
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 07:50:02AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> Add WRITE_OPD to check that you can't modify function
>> descriptors.
>>
>> Gives the following result when function descriptors are
>> not protected:
>>
>> lkdtm: Performing direct entry WRITE_OPD
>> lkdtm: attempting bad 16 bytes write at c00000000269b358
>> lkdtm: FAIL: survived bad write
>> lkdtm: do_nothing was hijacked!
>>
>> Looks like a standard compiler barrier(); is not enough to force
>> GCC to use the modified function descriptor. Add to add a fake empty
>> inline assembly to force GCC to reload the function descriptor.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
>> ---
>> drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c | 1 +
>> drivers/misc/lkdtm/lkdtm.h | 1 +
>> drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c
>> index fe6fd34b8caf..de092aa03b5d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c
>> @@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ static const struct crashtype crashtypes[] = {
>> CRASHTYPE(WRITE_RO),
>> CRASHTYPE(WRITE_RO_AFTER_INIT),
>> CRASHTYPE(WRITE_KERN),
>> + CRASHTYPE(WRITE_OPD),
>> CRASHTYPE(REFCOUNT_INC_OVERFLOW),
>> CRASHTYPE(REFCOUNT_ADD_OVERFLOW),
>> CRASHTYPE(REFCOUNT_INC_NOT_ZERO_OVERFLOW),
>> diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/lkdtm.h b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/lkdtm.h
>> index c212a253edde..188bd0fd6575 100644
>> --- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/lkdtm.h
>> +++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/lkdtm.h
>> @@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ void __init lkdtm_perms_init(void);
>> void lkdtm_WRITE_RO(void);
>> void lkdtm_WRITE_RO_AFTER_INIT(void);
>> void lkdtm_WRITE_KERN(void);
>> +void lkdtm_WRITE_OPD(void);
>> void lkdtm_EXEC_DATA(void);
>> void lkdtm_EXEC_STACK(void);
>> void lkdtm_EXEC_KMALLOC(void);
>> diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c
>> index 96b3ebfcb8ed..3870bc82d40d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c
>> +++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c
>> @@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ static noinline void do_overwritten(void)
>> return;
>> }
>>
>> +static noinline void do_almost_nothing(void)
>> +{
>> + pr_info("do_nothing was hijacked!\n");
>> +}
>> +
>> static void *setup_function_descriptor(func_desc_t *fdesc, void *dst)
>> {
>> memcpy(fdesc, do_nothing, sizeof(*fdesc));
>> @@ -143,6 +148,23 @@ void lkdtm_WRITE_KERN(void)
>> do_overwritten();
>> }
>>
>> +void lkdtm_WRITE_OPD(void)
>> +{
>> + size_t size = sizeof(func_desc_t);
>> + void (*func)(void) = do_nothing;
>> +
>> + if (!have_function_descriptors()) {
>> + pr_info("Platform doesn't have function descriptors.\n");
>
> This should be more explicit ('xfail'):
>
> pr_info("XFAIL: platform doesn't use function descriptors.\n");

Ok

>
>> + return;
>> + }
>> + pr_info("attempting bad %zu bytes write at %px\n", size, do_nothing);
>> + memcpy(do_nothing, do_almost_nothing, size);
>> + pr_err("FAIL: survived bad write\n");
>> +
>> + asm("" : "=m"(func));
>
> Since this is a descriptor, I assume no icache flush is needed. Are
> function descriptors strictly dcache? (Is anything besides just a
> barrier needed?)

No flush is needed, the code just loads the function address from memory
into CTR, loads R2 and branch to CTR:

19c: e9 21 00 70 ld r9,112(r1)
1a0: e9 49 00 00 ld r10,0(r9)
1a4: 7d 49 03 a6 mtctr r10
1a8: e8 49 00 08 ld r2,8(r9)
1ac: 4e 80 04 21 bctrl

>
>> + func();
>> +}
>> +
>> void lkdtm_EXEC_DATA(void)
>> {
>> execute_location(data_area, CODE_WRITE);
>> --
>> 2.31.1
>>
>