[PATCH v4 11/13] lkdtm: Really write into kernel text in WRITE_KERN

Christophe Leroy
2022-02-15T12:50:12Z

WRITE_KERN is supposed to overwrite some kernel text, namely
do_overwritten() function.

But at the time being it overwrites do_overwritten() function
descriptor, not function text.

Fix it by dereferencing the function descriptor to obtain
function text pointer. Export dereference_function_descriptor()
for when LKDTM is built as a module.

And make do_overwritten() noinline so that it is really
do_overwritten() which is called by lkdtm_WRITE_KERN().

Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
---
drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c | 8 +++++---
kernel/extable.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c
index 60b3b2fe929d..035fcca441f0 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#include <linux/mman.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
+#include <asm/sections.h>

/* Whether or not to fill the target memory area with do_nothing(). */
#define CODE_WRITE true
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ static noinline void do_nothing(void)
}

/* Must immediately follow do_nothing for size calculuations to work out. */
-static void do_overwritten(void)
+static noinline void do_overwritten(void)
{
pr_info("do_overwritten wasn't overwritten!\n");
return;
@@ -113,8 +114,9 @@ void lkdtm_WRITE_KERN(void)
size_t size;
volatile unsigned char *ptr;

- size = (unsigned long)do_overwritten - (unsigned long)do_nothing;
- ptr = (unsigned char *)do_overwritten;
+ size = (unsigned long)dereference_function_descriptor(do_overwritten) -
+ (unsigned long)dereference_function_descriptor(do_nothing);
+ ptr = dereference_function_descriptor(do_overwritten);

pr_info("attempting bad %zu byte write at %px\n", size, ptr);
memcpy((void *)ptr, (unsigned char *)do_nothing, size);
diff --git a/kernel/extable.c b/kernel/extable.c
index 394c39b86e38..bda5e9761541 100644
--- a/kernel/extable.c
+++ b/kernel/extable.c
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ void *dereference_function_descriptor(void *ptr)
ptr = p;
return ptr;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dereference_function_descriptor);

void *dereference_kernel_function_descriptor(void *ptr)
{
--
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