Thread (26 messages) 26 messages, 4 authors, 2014-09-04

[PATCH v4 7/8] ARM: mm: allow non-text sections to be non-executable

From: Will Deacon <hidden>
Date: 2014-08-19 12:33:33
Also in: lkml

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 06:06:32PM +0100, Kees Cook wrote:
Adds CONFIG_ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS to separate the kernel memory regions
into section-sized areas that can have different permisions. Performs
the NX permission changes during free_initmem, so that init memory can be
reclaimed.

This uses section size instead of PMD size to reduce memory lost to
padding on non-LPAE systems.

Based on work by Brad Spengler, Larry Bassel, and Laura Abbott.
[...]
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diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 6f57cb94367f..a3d07ca2bbb4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
 #include <asm/thread_info.h>
 #include <asm/memory.h>
 #include <asm/page.h>
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS
+#include <asm/pgtable.h>
+#endif
 	
 #define PROC_INFO							\
 	. = ALIGN(4);							\
@@ -90,6 +93,11 @@ SECTIONS
 		_text = .;
 		HEAD_TEXT
 	}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS
+	. = ALIGN(1<<SECTION_SHIFT);
+#endif
+
 	.text : {			/* Real text segment		*/
 		_stext = .;		/* Text and read-only data	*/
 			__exception_text_start = .;
@@ -145,7 +153,11 @@ SECTIONS
 	_etext = .;			/* End of text and rodata section */
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
+# ifdef CONFIG_ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS
+	. = ALIGN(1<<SECTION_SHIFT);
+# else
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
+# endif
This might be cleaner if we had a single macro (ALIGN_MIN?) that expanded to
ALIGN(1 << SECTION_SHIFT) #ifdef  CONFIG_ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS.
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diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/init.c b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
index ad82c05bfc3a..ccf392ef40d4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@
 #include <asm/tlb.h>
 #include <asm/fixmap.h>
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS
+#include <asm/system_info.h>
+#include <asm/cp15.h>
+#endif
We already #include cp15.h in this file. If you need system_info.h, I don't
think you should bother making the include conditional.
+/*
+ * Updates section permissions only for the current mm (sections are
+ * copied into each mm). During startup, this is the init_mm.
+ */
+static inline void section_update(unsigned long addr, pmdval_t mask,
+				  pmdval_t prot)
+{
+	struct mm_struct *mm;
+	pmd_t *pmd;
+
+	mm = current->active_mm;
+	pmd = pmd_offset(pud_offset(pgd_offset(mm, addr), addr), addr);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_LPAE
+	pmd[0] = __pmd((pmd_val(pmd[0]) & mask) | prot);
+#else
+	if (addr & SECTION_SIZE)
+		pmd[1] = __pmd((pmd_val(pmd[1]) & mask) | prot);
+	else
+		pmd[0] = __pmd((pmd_val(pmd[0]) & mask) | prot);
+#endif
+	flush_pmd_entry(pmd);
+	local_flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, addr + SECTION_SIZE);
Why only a local flush? You're changing global mappings here, right?
+}
+
+/* Make sure extended page tables are in use. */
+static inline bool arch_has_strict_perms(void)
+{
+	unsigned int cr;
+
+	if (cpu_architecture() < CPU_ARCH_ARMv6)
+		return false;
+
+	cr = get_cr();
+	if (!(cr & CR_XP))
+		return false;
+
+	return true;
return !!(get_cr() & CR_XP)?
+}
+
+#define set_section_perms(perms, field)	{				\
+	size_t i;							\
+	unsigned long addr;						\
+									\
+	if (!arch_has_strict_perms())					\
+		return;							\
+									\
+	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(perms); i++) {			\
+		if (!IS_ALIGNED(perms[i].start, SECTION_SIZE) ||	\
+		    !IS_ALIGNED(perms[i].end, SECTION_SIZE)) {		\
+			pr_err("BUG: section %lx-%lx not aligned to %lx\n", \
+				perms[i].start, perms[i].end,		\
+				SECTION_SIZE);				\
+			continue;					\
+		}							\
+									\
+		for (addr = perms[i].start;				\
+		     addr < perms[i].end;				\
+		     addr += SECTION_SIZE)				\
+			section_update(addr, perms[i].mask,		\
+				       perms[i].field);			\
+	}								\
+}
+
+static inline void fix_kernmem_perms(void)
+{
+	set_section_perms(nx_perms, prot);
+}
+#else
+static inline void fix_kernmem_perms(void) { }
+#endif /* CONFIG_ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS */
+
 void free_initmem(void)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_TCM
 	extern char __tcm_start, __tcm_end;
+#endif
+
+	fix_kernmem_perms();
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_TCM
You could avoid the double #ifdef by moving the tcm stuff into another
function (free_tcmmem?)

Will
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