From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/proc/kcore.c: Omit kernel text area for hardened usercopy feature
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 08:17:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160902151713.GM5871@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1472819145-27260-1-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org>
On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 02:25:45PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> One of the bullets for hardened usercopy feature is:
> - object must not overlap with kernel text
>
> which is what we expose via /proc/kcore. We can hit
> this check and crash the system very easily just by
> reading the text area in kcore file:
>
> usercopy: kernel memory exposure attempt detected from ffffffff8179a01f (<kernel text>) (4065 bytes)
> kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:75!
>
> Omitting kernel text area from kcore when there's
> hardened usercopy feature is enabled.
That will completely break PT decoding, which relies on looking
at the kernel text in /proc/kcore.
Need a different fix here, perhaps some special copy function
that is not hardened.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-02 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-02 12:25 [PATCH] fs/proc/kcore.c: Omit kernel text area for hardened usercopy feature Jiri Olsa
2016-09-02 15:17 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2016-09-02 16:15 ` Jiri Olsa
2016-09-05 8:47 ` Jiri Olsa
2016-09-05 16:27 ` Andi Kleen
2016-09-06 17:56 ` Kees Cook
2016-09-06 18:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-06 19:41 ` Andi Kleen
2016-09-06 19:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-07 17:17 ` Kees Cook
2016-09-07 17:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-07 7:32 ` Jiri Olsa
2016-09-07 16:38 ` Andi Kleen
2016-09-07 16:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-07 19:25 ` Jiri Olsa
2016-09-07 21:24 ` Jiri Olsa
2016-09-07 22:52 ` Linus Torvalds
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