Re: [PATCH 1/4] kaslr: check user's config too when handle relocations

Baoquan He
2014-09-09T06:25:55Z

On 09/05/14 at 10:11am, Kees Cook wrote:
> I don't think this is correct. If you look at a02150610776 ("x86,
> relocs: Move ELF relocation handling to C"), we always did relocations
> on 32-bit when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE was set, so I think this will fail
> badly on 32-bit. 64-bit only needs relocation when
> CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is set, so this is probably what needs to be
> tested here instead. I think a better option would be, in
> decompress_kernel(), to compare output before and after
> choose_kernel_location(). If it's the same on 64-bit,
> handle_relocations() can be skipped. (Perhaps pass the before/after to
> handle_relocations() and it can perform the logic.)
>
> -Kees

Hi Kees,

Checking handle_relocations() again, I just didn't notice it's mandatory
to do the relocations handling in i386. So in this function delta is
checked to see if it's a kaslr relocation handling. This might be a
little confusing. But I am fine with it.

Per your comment, you prefer to compare the output before and after
choose_kernel_location(). That's also good, Lu Yinghai posted a draft
patch in this way before, however the checking and the delta calculation
are not correct. I changed that and test all cases, it works well. So
do you like this it? If yes I will repost it.

>From 13471bd838c52a0e143c2aee81e3863cfff585bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:57:43 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] kaslr: check if kernel location is changed

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
---
arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c | 15 +++++++++++----
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
index 57ab74d..887f404 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
@@ -230,8 +230,9 @@ static void error(char *x)
asm("hlt");
}

-#if CONFIG_X86_NEED_RELOCS
-static void handle_relocations(void *output, unsigned long output_len)
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_NEED_RELOCS
+static void handle_relocations(void *output_orig, void *output,
+ unsigned long output_len)
{
int *reloc;
unsigned long delta, map, ptr;
@@ -242,6 +243,9 @@ static void handle_relocations(void *output, unsigned long output_len)
* Calculate the delta between where vmlinux was linked to load
* and where it was actually loaded.
*/
+ if (output_orig == output)
+ return;
+
delta = min_addr - LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR;
if (!delta) {
debug_putstr("No relocation needed... ");
@@ -299,7 +303,8 @@ static void handle_relocations(void *output, unsigned long output_len)
#endif
}
#else
-static inline void handle_relocations(void *output, unsigned long output_len)
+static inline void handle_relocations(void *output_orig, void *output,
+ unsigned long output_len)
{ }
#endif

@@ -360,6 +365,8 @@ asmlinkage __visible void *decompress_kernel(void *rmode, memptr heap,
unsigned char *output,
unsigned long output_len)
{
+ unsigned char *output_orig = output;
+
real_mode = rmode;

sanitize_boot_params(real_mode);
@@ -402,7 +409,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void *decompress_kernel(void *rmode, memptr heap,
debug_putstr("\nDecompressing Linux... ");
decompress(input_data, input_len, NULL, NULL, output, NULL, error);
parse_elf(output);
- handle_relocations(output, output_len);
+ handle_relocations(output_orig, output, output_len);
debug_putstr("done.\nBooting the kernel.\n");
return output;
}
--
1.8.5.3