Thread (24 messages) 24 messages, 8 authors, 2015-11-27

[PATCH v3 1/4] mm: mmap: Add new /proc tunable for mmap_base ASLR.

From: Daniel Cashman <hidden>
Date: 2015-11-19 00:14:20
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

On 11/18/2015 03:20 PM, Daniel Cashman wrote:
 ==============================================================
 
+mmap_rnd_bits:
+
+This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
+determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
+resulting from mmap allocations on architectures which support
+tuning address space randomization.  This value will be bounded
+by the architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
+
+This value can be changed after boot using the
+/proc/sys/kernel/mmap_rnd_bits tunable
+
+==============================================================
+
+mmap_rnd_compat_bits:
+
+This value can be used to select the number of bits to use to
+determine the random offset to the base address of vma regions
+resulting from mmap allocations for applications run in
+compatibility mode on architectures which support tuning address
+space randomization.  This value will be bounded by the
+architecture's minimum and maximum supported values.
+
+This value can be changed after boot using the
+/proc/sys/kernel/mmap_rnd_compat_bits tunable
+
+==============================================================
As Kees pointed out in my erroneously sent (missing v3 prefix)
patch-set: the /proc/sys/kernel/ entries were not changed to reflect the
move to /proc/sys/vm/.

quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 00bad77..7d39828 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -51,6 +51,17 @@ extern int sysctl_legacy_va_layout;
 #define sysctl_legacy_va_layout 0
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
+extern int mmap_rnd_bits_min;
+extern int mmap_rnd_bits_max;
+extern int mmap_rnd_bits;
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
+extern int mmap_rnd_compat_bits_min;
+extern int mmap_rnd_compat_bits_max;
+extern int mmap_rnd_compat_bits;
+#endif
+
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
 #include <asm/processor.h>
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index dc6858d..40e5de6 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1568,6 +1568,28 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= proc_doulongvec_minmax,
 	},
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
+	{
+		.procname	= "mmap_rnd_bits",
+		.data		= &mmap_rnd_bits,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(mmap_rnd_bits),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
+		.extra1		= &mmap_rnd_bits_min,
+		.extra2		= &mmap_rnd_bits_max,
+	},
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
+	{
+		.procname	= "mmap_rnd_compat_bits",
+		.data		= &mmap_rnd_compat_bits,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(mmap_rnd_compat_bits),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
+		.extra1		= &mmap_rnd_compat_bits_min,
+		.extra2		= &mmap_rnd_compat_bits_max,
+	},
+#endif
 	{ }
 };
 
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 2ce04a6..aa49841 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -58,6 +58,18 @@
 #define arch_rebalance_pgtables(addr, len)		(addr)
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
+int mmap_rnd_bits_min = CONFIG_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MIN;
+int mmap_rnd_bits_max = CONFIG_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS_MAX;
+int mmap_rnd_bits = CONFIG_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS;
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS
+int mmap_rnd_compat_bits_min = CONFIG_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MIN;
+int mmap_rnd_compat_bits_max = CONFIG_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS_MAX;
+int mmap_rnd_compat_bits = CONFIG_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS;
+#endif
+
Again from Kees in my erroneously sent (missing v3 prefix) patch-set:
the min/max should be const.
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