Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH] [RFC] binfmt_elf: Use ELF_ET_DYN_BASE only for PIE

Daniel Micay
2017-06-21T17:27:24Z

On Wed, 2017-06-21 at 10:23 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 5:07 AM, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 22:58 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > +/* This is the base location for PIE (ET_DYN with INTERP) loads.
> > > */
> > > +#define ELF_ET_DYN_BASE 0x400000UL
> >
> > This value is good for 32 bit binaries, but for 64
> > bit binaries you probably want to put ELF_ET_DYN_BASE
> > at 4GB or higher.
> >
> > The latter is necessary because Android uses the
> > lower 4GB of address space for its JVM runtime,
> > with 32 bit pointers inside that part of the otherwise
> > 64 bit address space.
> >
> > In other words:
> >
> > #define ELF_ET_DYN_BASE (mmap_is_ia32() ? 0x400000UL :
> > 0x100000000UL)
>
> Ah, interesting. Okay, that should be fine. I'll adjust it.
>
> > > +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
> > >
> > > + * Therefore, programs are loaded offset
> > > from
> > > + * ELF_ET_DYN_BASE and loaders are loaded
> > > into the
> > > + * independently randomized mmap region (0
> > > load_bias
> > > + * without MAP_FIXED).
> > > + */
> > > + if (elf_interpreter) {
> > > + load_bias = ELF_ET_DYN_BASE;
> > > + if (current->flags & PF_RANDOMIZE)
> > > + load_bias +=
> > > arch_mmap_rnd();
> > > + elf_flags |= MAP_FIXED;
> > > + } else
> > > + load_bias = 0;
> > > +
> > > + load_bias -= vaddr;
> >
> > I like this, and the big comment telling people how it
> > works :)
>
> Thanks! It looks like your patch for commenting load_bias never got
> picked up, so I've added some more comments for that and some other
> things too. (Mostly for all the stuff I have to read a few times when
> I look at this code.)
>
> -Kees
>

The stack rlimit calculation fix for space potentially lost to ASLR is
probably still needed too, right?