[PATCH v5 7/8] ARM: mm: allow non-text sections to be non-executable

Kees Cook
2014-09-03T21:59:23Z

Adds CONFIG_ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS to separate the kernel memory regions
into section-sized areas that can have different permisions. Performs
the NX permission changes during free_initmem, so that init memory can be
reclaimed.

This uses section size instead of PMD size to reduce memory lost to
padding on non-LPAE systems.

Based on work by Brad Spengler, Larry Bassel, and Laura Abbott.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
---
arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 17 +++++++
arch/arm/mm/Kconfig | 9 ++++
arch/arm/mm/init.c | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
arch/arm/mm/mmu.c | 13 +++++-
4 files changed, 138 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 6f57cb94367f..a3d07ca2bbb4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
#include <asm/thread_info.h>
#include <asm/memory.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS
+#include <asm/pgtable.h>
+#endif

#define PROC_INFO \
. = ALIGN(4); \
@@ -90,6 +93,11 @@ SECTIONS
_text = .;
HEAD_TEXT
}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS
+ . = ALIGN(1<<SECTION_SHIFT);
+#endif
+
.text : { /* Real text segment */
_stext = .; /* Text and read-only data */
__exception_text_start = .;
@@ -145,7 +153,11 @@ SECTIONS
_etext = .; /* End of text and rodata section */

#ifndef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
+# ifdef CONFIG_ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS
+ . = ALIGN(1<<SECTION_SHIFT);
+# else
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
+# endif
__init_begin = .;
#endif
/*
@@ -220,7 +232,12 @@ SECTIONS
. = PAGE_OFFSET + TEXT_OFFSET;
#else
__init_end = .;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS
+ . = ALIGN(1<<SECTION_SHIFT);
+#else
. = ALIGN(THREAD_SIZE);
+#endif
__data_loc = .;
#endif

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
index ae69809a9e47..7a0756df91a2 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
@@ -1008,3 +1008,12 @@ config ARCH_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN
help
This option specifies the architecture can support big endian
operation.
+
+config ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS
+ bool "Restrict kernel memory permissions"
+ help
+ If this is set, kernel memory other than kernel text (and rodata)
+ will be made non-executable. The tradeoff is that each region is
+ padded to section-size (1MiB) boundaries (because their permissions
+ are different and splitting the 1M pages into 4K ones causes TLB
+ performance problems), wasting memory.
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/init.c b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
index ad82c05bfc3a..e6bfe76b2f59 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
#include <asm/prom.h>
#include <asm/sections.h>
#include <asm/setup.h>
+#include <asm/system_info.h>
#include <asm/tlb.h>
#include <asm/fixmap.h>

@@ -615,7 +616,99 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
}
}

-void free_initmem(void)
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS
+struct section_perm {
+ unsigned long start;
+ unsigned long end;
+ pmdval_t mask;
+ pmdval_t prot;
+};
+
+struct section_perm nx_perms[] = {
+ /* Make pages tables, etc before _stext RW (set NX). */
+ {
+ .start = PAGE_OFFSET,
+ .end = (unsigned long)_stext,
+ .mask = ~PMD_SECT_XN,
+ .prot = PMD_SECT_XN,
+ },
+ /* Make init RW (set NX). */
+ {
+ .start = (unsigned long)__init_begin,
+ .end = (unsigned long)_sdata,
+ .mask = ~PMD_SECT_XN,
+ .prot = PMD_SECT_XN,
+ },
+};
+
+/*
+ * Updates section permissions only for the current mm (sections are
+ * copied into each mm). During startup, this is the init_mm. Is only
+ * safe to be called with preemption disabled, as under stop_machine().
+ */
+static inline void section_update(unsigned long addr, pmdval_t mask,
+ pmdval_t prot)
+{
+ struct mm_struct *mm;
+ pmd_t *pmd;
+
+ mm = current->active_mm;
+ pmd = pmd_offset(pud_offset(pgd_offset(mm, addr), addr), addr);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_LPAE
+ pmd[0] = __pmd((pmd_val(pmd[0]) & mask) | prot);
+#else
+ if (addr & SECTION_SIZE)
+ pmd[1] = __pmd((pmd_val(pmd[1]) & mask) | prot);
+ else
+ pmd[0] = __pmd((pmd_val(pmd[0]) & mask) | prot);
+#endif
+ flush_pmd_entry(pmd);
+ local_flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, addr + SECTION_SIZE);
+}
+
+/* Make sure extended page tables are in use. */
+static inline bool arch_has_strict_perms(void)
+{
+ if (cpu_architecture() < CPU_ARCH_ARMv6)
+ return false;
+
+ return !!(get_cr() & CR_XP);
+}
+
+#define set_section_perms(perms, field) { \
+ size_t i; \
+ unsigned long addr; \
+ \
+ if (!arch_has_strict_perms()) \
+ return; \
+ \
+ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(perms); i++) { \
+ if (!IS_ALIGNED(perms[i].start, SECTION_SIZE) || \
+ !IS_ALIGNED(perms[i].end, SECTION_SIZE)) { \
+ pr_err("BUG: section %lx-%lx not aligned to %lx\n", \
+ perms[i].start, perms[i].end, \
+ SECTION_SIZE); \
+ continue; \
+ } \
+ \
+ for (addr = perms[i].start; \
+ addr < perms[i].end; \
+ addr += SECTION_SIZE) \
+ section_update(addr, perms[i].mask, \
+ perms[i].field); \
+ } \
+}
+
+static inline void fix_kernmem_perms(void)
+{
+ set_section_perms(nx_perms, prot);
+}
+#else
+static inline void fix_kernmem_perms(void) { }
+#endif /* CONFIG_ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS */
+
+void free_tcmmem(void)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_TCM
extern char __tcm_start, __tcm_end;
@@ -623,6 +716,12 @@ void free_initmem(void)
poison_init_mem(&__tcm_start, &__tcm_end - &__tcm_start);
free_reserved_area(&__tcm_start, &__tcm_end, -1, "TCM link");
#endif
+}
+
+void free_initmem(void)
+{
+ fix_kernmem_perms();
+ free_tcmmem();

poison_init_mem(__init_begin, __init_end - __init_begin);
if (!machine_is_integrator() && !machine_is_cintegrator())
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
index fa3a667852cb..c5e7e342ff69 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
@@ -1374,13 +1374,24 @@ static void __init map_lowmem(void)
if (start >= end)
break;

- if (end < kernel_x_start || start >= kernel_x_end) {
+ if (end < kernel_x_start) {
map.pfn = __phys_to_pfn(start);
map.virtual = __phys_to_virt(start);
map.length = end - start;
map.type = MT_MEMORY_RWX;

create_mapping(&map);
+ } else if (start >= kernel_x_end) {
+ map.pfn = __phys_to_pfn(start);
+ map.virtual = __phys_to_virt(start);
+ map.length = end - start;
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS
+ map.type = MT_MEMORY_RW;
+#else
+ map.type = MT_MEMORY_RWX;
+#endif
+
+ create_mapping(&map);
} else {
/* This better cover the entire kernel */
if (start < kernel_x_start) {
--
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