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

Christophe Leroy
2021-10-14T06:25:04Z

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