From 6aeb25425d07a8cf2deb4cc1db4d7a667e640839 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Rapoport Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2021 18:07:50 -0700 Subject: mmap: make mlock_future_check() global Patch series "mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas", v20. This is an implementation of "secret" mappings backed by a file descriptor. The file descriptor backing secret memory mappings is created using a dedicated memfd_secret system call The desired protection mode for the memory is configured using flags parameter of the system call. The mmap() of the file descriptor created with memfd_secret() will create a "secret" memory mapping. The pages in that mapping will be marked as not present in the direct map and will be present only in the page table of the owning mm. Although normally Linux userspace mappings are protected from other users, such secret mappings are useful for environments where a hostile tenant is trying to trick the kernel into giving them access to other tenants mappings. It's designed to provide the following protections: * Enhanced protection (in conjunction with all the other in-kernel attack prevention systems) against ROP attacks. Seceretmem makes "simple" ROP insufficient to perform exfiltration, which increases the required complexity of the attack. Along with other protections like the kernel stack size limit and address space layout randomization which make finding gadgets is really hard, absence of any in-kernel primitive for accessing secret memory means the one gadget ROP attack can't work. Since the only way to access secret memory is to reconstruct the missing mapping entry, the attacker has to recover the physical page and insert a PTE pointing to it in the kernel and then retrieve the contents. That takes at least three gadgets which is a level of difficulty beyond most standard attacks. * Prevent cross-process secret userspace memory exposures. Once the secret memory is allocated, the user can't accidentally pass it into the kernel to be transmitted somewhere. The secreremem pages cannot be accessed via the direct map and they are disallowed in GUP. * Harden against exploited kernel flaws. In order to access secretmem, a kernel-side attack would need to either walk the page tables and create new ones, or spawn a new privileged uiserspace process to perform secrets exfiltration using ptrace. In the future the secret mappings may be used as a mean to protect guest memory in a virtual machine host. For demonstration of secret memory usage we've created a userspace library https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/secret-memory-preloader.git that does two things: the first is act as a preloader for openssl to redirect all the OPENSSL_malloc calls to secret memory meaning any secret keys get automatically protected this way and the other thing it does is expose the API to the user who needs it. We anticipate that a lot of the use cases would be like the openssl one: many toolkits that deal with secret keys already have special handling for the memory to try to give them greater protection, so this would simply be pluggable into the toolkits without any need for user application modification. Hiding secret memory mappings behind an anonymous file allows usage of the page cache for tracking pages allocated for the "secret" mappings as well as using address_space_operations for e.g. page migration callbacks. The anonymous file may be also used implicitly, like hugetlb files, to implement mmap(MAP_SECRET) and use the secret memory areas with "native" mm ABIs in the future. Removing of the pages from the direct map may cause its fragmentation on architectures that use large pages to map the physical memory which affects the system performance. However, the original Kconfig text for CONFIG_DIRECT_GBPAGES said that gigabyte pages in the direct map "... can improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit ..." (commit 00d1c5e05736 ("x86: add gbpages switches")) and the recent report [1] showed that "... although 1G mappings are a good default choice, there is no compelling evidence that it must be the only choice". Hence, it is sufficient to have secretmem disabled by default with the ability of a system administrator to enable it at boot time. In addition, there is also a long term goal to improve management of the direct map. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/213b4567-46ce-f116-9cdf-bbd0c884eb3c@linux.intel.com/ This patch (of 7): It will be used by the upcoming secret memory implementation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210518072034.31572-1-rppt@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210518072034.31572-2-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: James Bottomley Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Christopher Lameter Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Elena Reshetova Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Bottomley Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rick Edgecombe Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Tycho Andersen Cc: Will Deacon Cc: kernel test robot Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/mmap.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/mmap.c') diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index aa9de981b659..ca54d36d203a 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -1352,9 +1352,8 @@ static inline unsigned long round_hint_to_min(unsigned long hint) return hint; } -static inline int mlock_future_check(struct mm_struct *mm, - unsigned long flags, - unsigned long len) +int mlock_future_check(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long flags, + unsigned long len) { unsigned long locked, lock_limit; -- cgit v1.2.3