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author | Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> | 2015-10-05 19:55:20 +0300 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-10-06 12:11:48 +0300 |
commit | e1a58320a38dfa72be48a0f1a3a92273663ba6db (patch) | |
tree | 1ff867a83c601546e0910c009c96f4e1c1cd43b6 /arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | |
parent | 38a413cbc2b2834683b21823d964bc2d2f0abb82 (diff) | |
download | linux-e1a58320a38dfa72be48a0f1a3a92273663ba6db.tar.xz |
x86/mm: Warn on W^X mappings
Warn on any residual W+X mappings after setting NX
if DEBUG_WX is enabled. Introduce a separate
X86_PTDUMP_CORE config that enables the code for
dumping the page tables without enabling the debugfs
interface, so that DEBUG_WX can be enabled without
exposing the debugfs interface. Switch EFI_PGT_DUMP
to using X86_PTDUMP_CORE so that it also does not require
enabling the debugfs interface.
On success it prints this to the kernel log:
x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found.
On failure it prints a warning and a count of the failed pages:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c:226 note_page+0x610/0x7b0()
x86/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address ffffffff81755000/__stop___ex_table+0xfa8/0xabfa8
[...]
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81380a5f>] dump_stack+0x44/0x55
[<ffffffff8109d3f2>] warn_slowpath_common+0x82/0xc0
[<ffffffff8109d48c>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5c/0x80
[<ffffffff8106cfc9>] ? note_page+0x5c9/0x7b0
[<ffffffff8106d010>] note_page+0x610/0x7b0
[<ffffffff8106d409>] ptdump_walk_pgd_level_core+0x259/0x3c0
[<ffffffff8106d5a7>] ptdump_walk_pgd_level_checkwx+0x17/0x20
[<ffffffff81063905>] mark_rodata_ro+0xf5/0x100
[<ffffffff817415a0>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
[<ffffffff817415bd>] kernel_init+0x1d/0xe0
[<ffffffff8174cd1f>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70
[<ffffffff817415a0>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
---[ end trace a1f23a1e42a2ac76 ]---
x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: FAILED, 171 W+X pages found.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444064120-11450-1-git-send-email-sds@tycho.nsa.gov
[ Improved the Kconfig help text and made the new option default-y
if CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y, because it already found buggy mappings,
so we really want people to have this on by default. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig.debug')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | 36 |
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug index d8c0d3266173..3e0baf726eef 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug @@ -65,10 +65,14 @@ config EARLY_PRINTK_EFI This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very early before the console code is initialized. +config X86_PTDUMP_CORE + def_bool n + config X86_PTDUMP bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL select DEBUG_FS + select X86_PTDUMP_CORE ---help--- Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers @@ -79,7 +83,8 @@ config X86_PTDUMP config EFI_PGT_DUMP bool "Dump the EFI pagetable" - depends on EFI && X86_PTDUMP + depends on EFI + select X86_PTDUMP_CORE ---help--- Enable this if you want to dump the EFI page table before enabling virtual mode. This can be used to debug miscellaneous @@ -105,6 +110,35 @@ config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure. If in doubt, say "N" +config DEBUG_WX + bool "Warn on W+X mappings at boot" + depends on DEBUG_RODATA + default y + select X86_PTDUMP_CORE + ---help--- + Generate a warning if any W+X mappings are found at boot. + + This is useful for discovering cases where the kernel is leaving + W+X mappings after applying NX, as such mappings are a security risk. + + Look for a message in dmesg output like this: + + x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found. + + or like this, if the check failed: + + x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: FAILED, <N> W+X pages found. + + Note that even if the check fails, your kernel is possibly + still fine, as W+X mappings are not a security hole in + themselves, what they do is that they make the exploitation + of other unfixed kernel bugs easier. + + There is no runtime or memory usage effect of this option + once the kernel has booted up - it's a one time check. + + If in doubt, say "Y". + config DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO" depends on MODULES |