From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [IPv6:2401:3900:2:1::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 208E51A00AF for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:53:36 +1100 (AEDT) Message-ID: <1416207214.2826.3.camel@concordia> Subject: Re: [PATCH] [powerpc] Fix Text randomization From: Michael Ellerman To: Vineeth Vijayan Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:53:34 +1100 In-Reply-To: <1415956325-10124-1-git-send-email-vvijayan@mvista.com> References: <1415956325-10124-1-git-send-email-vvijayan@mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Anton Blanchard List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 2014-11-14 at 14:42 +0530, Vineeth Vijayan wrote: > Now there is no way to disable TEXT randomization on a PPC32/PPC64 > machine. Text randomization happens even in the case of "echo 0 > > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space" > > This happens due to the incorrect definition of ELF_ET_DYN_BASE > at arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h > > The function randomize_et_dyn is redundant and is removed. The patch looks OK, but for the change log I was thinking something more like this: powerpc: Use generic PIE randomization Back in 2009 we merged 501cb16d3cfd "Randomise PIEs", which added support for randomizing PIE (Position Independent Executable) binaries. That commit added randomize_et_dyn(), which correctly randomized the addresses, but failed to honor PF_RANDOMIZE. That means it was not possible to disable PIE randomization via the personality flag, or /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space. Since then there has been generic support for PIE randomization added to binfmt_elf.c, selectable via ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE. Enabling that allows us to drop randomize_et_dyn(), which means we start honoring PF_RANDOMIZE correctly. It also causes a fairly major change to how we layout PIE binaries. Currently we will place the binary at 512MB-520MB for 32 bit binaries, or 512MB-1.5GB for 64 bit binaries, eg: $ cat /proc/$$/maps 4e550000-4e580000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 129813 /bin/dash 4e580000-4e590000 rw-p 00020000 08:02 129813 /bin/dash 10014110000-10014140000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] 3fffaa3f0000-3fffaa5a0000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 921 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc-2.19.so 3fffaa5a0000-3fffaa5b0000 rw-p 001a0000 08:02 921 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc-2.19.so 3fffaa5c0000-3fffaa5d0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 3fffaa5d0000-3fffaa5f0000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] 3fffaa5f0000-3fffaa620000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1246 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/ld-2.19.so 3fffaa620000-3fffaa630000 rw-p 00020000 08:02 1246 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/ld-2.19.so 3ffffc340000-3ffffc370000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] With this commit applied we don't do any special randomisation for the binary, and instead rely on mmap randomisation. This means the binary ends up at high addresses, eg: $ cat /proc/$$/maps 3fff99820000-3fff999d0000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 921 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc-2.19.so 3fff999d0000-3fff999e0000 rw-p 001a0000 08:02 921 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc-2.19.so 3fff999f0000-3fff99a00000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 3fff99a00000-3fff99a20000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] 3fff99a20000-3fff99a50000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1246 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/ld-2.19.so 3fff99a50000-3fff99a60000 rw-p 00020000 08:02 1246 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/ld-2.19.so 3fff99a60000-3fff99a90000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 129813 /bin/dash 3fff99a90000-3fff99aa0000 rw-p 00020000 08:02 129813 /bin/dash 3fffc3de0000-3fffc3e10000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] 3fffc55e0000-3fffc5610000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] Although this should be OK, it's possible it might break badly written binaries that make assumptions about the address space layout. cheers