Thread (38 messages) 38 messages, 10 authors, 2018-04-03

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] Randomization of address chosen by mmap.

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2018-03-22 20:53:14
Also in: linux-alpha, linux-mm, linux-s390, linux-sh, linuxppc-dev, lkml, sparclinux

On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 19:36:37 +0300 Ilya Smith [off-list ref] wrote:
 include/linux/mm.h |  16 ++++--
 mm/mmap.c          | 164 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
You'll be wanting to update the documentation. 
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt and
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt.
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@@ -2268,6 +2276,9 @@ extern unsigned long unmapped_area_topdown(struct vm_unmapped_area_info *info);
 static inline unsigned long
 vm_unmapped_area(struct vm_unmapped_area_info *info)
 {
+	/* How about 32 bit process?? */
+	if ((current->flags & PF_RANDOMIZE) && randomize_va_space > 3)
+		return unmapped_area_random(info);
The handling of randomize_va_space is peculiar.  Rather than being a
bitfield which independently selects different modes, it is treated as
a scalar: the larger the value, the more stuff we randomize.

I can see the sense in that (and I wonder what randomize_va_space=5
will do).  But it is...  odd.

Why did you select randomize_va_space=4 for this?  Is there a mode 3
already and we forgot to document it?  Or did you leave a gap for
something?  If the former, please feel free to fix the documentation
(in a separate, preceding patch) while you're in there ;)
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 	if (info->flags & VM_UNMAPPED_AREA_TOPDOWN)
 		return unmapped_area_topdown(info);
 	else
@@ -2529,11 +2540,6 @@ int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *, int,
 void drop_slab(void);
 void drop_slab_node(int nid);
 
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@@ -1780,6 +1781,169 @@ unsigned long mmap_region(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
 	return error;
 }
 
+unsigned long unmapped_area_random(struct vm_unmapped_area_info *info)
+{
This function is just dead code if CONFIG_MMU=n, yes?  Let's add the
ifdefs to make it go away in that case.
+	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
+	struct vm_area_struct *vma = NULL;
+	struct vm_area_struct *visited_vma = NULL;
+	unsigned long entropy[2];
+	unsigned long length, low_limit, high_limit, gap_start, gap_end;
+	unsigned long addr = 0;
+
+	/* get entropy with prng */
+	prandom_bytes(&entropy, sizeof(entropy));
+	/* small hack to prevent EPERM result */
+	info->low_limit = max(info->low_limit, mmap_min_addr);
+

...

+found:
+	/* We found a suitable gap. Clip it with the original high_limit. */
+	if (gap_end > info->high_limit)
+		gap_end = info->high_limit;
+	gap_end -= info->length;
+	gap_end -= (gap_end - info->align_offset) & info->align_mask;
+	/* only one suitable page */
+	if (gap_end ==  gap_start)
+		return gap_start;
+	addr = entropy[1] % (min((gap_end - gap_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT,
+							 0x10000UL));
What does the magic 10000 mean?  Isn't a comment needed explaining this?
+	addr = gap_end - (addr << PAGE_SHIFT);
+	addr += (info->align_offset - addr) & info->align_mask;
+	return addr;
+}

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