Re: [PATCH v2] x86: test that userspace stack is in fact NX

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:

> Here is how it works:
> 
> * fault and fill the stack from rsp with int3 down until rlimit allows,
> * fill upwards with int3 too, overwrite libc stuff, argv, envp,
> * try to exec int3 on each page and catch it in either SIGSEGV or
>   SIGTRAP handler.
> 
> Note: trying to execute _every_ int3 on a 8 MiB stack takes 30-40 seconds
> even on fast machine which is too much for kernel selftesting
> (not for LTP!) so only 1 int3 per page is tried.
> 
> Tested on F37 kernel and on a custom kernel which does
> 
> 	vm_flags |= VM_EXEC;
> 
> to stack VMA.
> 
> Report from the buggy kernel:
> 
> 	$ ./nx_stack_32
> 	stack min ff007000
> 	stack max ff807000
> 	FAIL    executable page on the stack: eip ff806001
> 
> 	$ ./nx_stack_64
> 	stack min 7ffe65bb0000
> 	stack max 7ffe663b0000
> 	FAIL    executable page on the stack: rip 7ffe663af001

Nice, thanks!

	Ingo