Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Allow customizable random offset to mmap_base address.

Michael Ellerman
2015-11-26T07:08:02Z

On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 16:39 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:20:04 -0800 Daniel Cashman <dcashman@android.com> wrote:
> > Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) provides a barrier to
> > exploitation of user-space processes in the presence of security
> > vulnerabilities by making it more difficult to find desired code/data
> > which could help an attack. This is done by adding a random offset to the
> > location of regions in the process address space, with a greater range of
> > potential offset values corresponding to better protection/a larger
> > search-space for brute force, but also to greater potential for
> > fragmentation.
>
> mips, powerpc and s390 also implement arch_mmap_rnd(). Are there any
> special considerations here, or it just a matter of maintainers wiring
> it up and testing it?

I had a quick stab at powerpc. It seems to work OK, though I've only tested on
64-bit 64K pages.

I'll update this when Daniel does a version which supports a DEFAULT for both
MIN values.

cheers

>From 7c42636d5df21203977900d283c722116f06310c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 17:40:00 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: Use ARCH_MMCAP_RND_BITS

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
---
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/powerpc/mm/mmap.c | 12 +++++++-----
2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index db49e0d796b1..e796d6c4055c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -27,6 +27,36 @@ config MMU
bool
default y

+config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN
+ # On 64-bit up to 1G of address space (2^30)
+ default 12 if 64BIT && PPC_256K_PAGES # 256K (2^18), = 30 - 18 = 12
+ default 14 if 64BIT && PPC_64K_PAGES # 64K (2^16), = 30 - 16 = 14
+ default 16 if 64BIT && PPC_16K_PAGES # 16K (2^14), = 30 - 14 = 16
+ default 18 if 64BIT # 4K (2^12), = 30 - 12 = 18
+ default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
+
+config ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX
+ # On 64-bit up to 32T of address space (2^45)
+ default 27 if 64BIT && PPC_256K_PAGES # 256K (2^18), = 45 - 18 = 27
+ default 29 if 64BIT && PPC_64K_PAGES # 64K (2^16), = 45 - 16 = 29
+ default 31 if 64BIT && PPC_16K_PAGES # 16K (2^14), = 45 - 14 = 31
+ default 33 if 64BIT # 4K (2^12), = 45 - 12 = 33
+ default ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
+
+config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN
+ # Up to 8MB of address space (2^23)
+ default 5 if PPC_256K_PAGES # 256K (2^18), = 23 - 18 = 5
+ default 7 if PPC_64K_PAGES # 64K (2^16), = 23 - 16 = 7
+ default 9 if PPC_16K_PAGES # 16K (2^14), = 23 - 14 = 9
+ default 11 # 4K (2^12), = 23 - 12 = 11
+
+config ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX
+ # Up to 2G of address space (2^31)
+ default 13 if PPC_256K_PAGES # 256K (2^18), = 31 - 18 = 13
+ default 15 if PPC_64K_PAGES # 64K (2^16), = 31 - 16 = 15
+ default 17 if PPC_16K_PAGES # 16K (2^14), = 31 - 14 = 17
+ default 19 # 4K (2^12), = 31 - 12 = 19
+
config HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA
def_bool PPC64

@@ -160,6 +190,8 @@ config PPC
select EDAC_ATOMIC_SCRUB
select ARCH_HAS_DMA_SET_COHERENT_MASK
select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
+ select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
+ select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS if COMPAT

config GENERIC_CSUM
def_bool CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmap.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmap.c
index 0f0502e12f6c..269f7bcd2702 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmap.c
@@ -55,13 +55,15 @@ static inline int mmap_is_legacy(void)

unsigned long arch_mmap_rnd(void)
{
- unsigned long rnd;
+ unsigned long shift, rnd;

- /* 8MB for 32bit, 1GB for 64bit */
+ shift = mmap_rnd_bits;
+#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
if (is_32bit_task())
- rnd = (unsigned long)get_random_int() % (1<<(23-PAGE_SHIFT));
- else
- rnd = (unsigned long)get_random_int() % (1<<(30-PAGE_SHIFT));
+ shift = mmap_rnd_compat_bits;
+#endif
+
+ rnd = (unsigned long)get_random_int() % (1 << shift);

return rnd << PAGE_SHIFT;
}
--
2.5.0