Disable the generic pre-usermode check in favor of an optimized implementation. This patch adds specific checks on user-mode return path to make it faster and smaller. The address limit is checked on each syscall return path to user-mode. If it was changed, a generic handler is called to stop the kernel on an explicit check. Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> --- Based on next-20170410 Fix comments from Catalin and add review-by in the message. --- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 + arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 12 ++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig index 9b8fcab7da56..3f9e8e7d9376 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ config ARM64 select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL + select ARCH_NO_SYSCALL_VERIFY_PRE_USERMODE_STATE select ARM_AMBA select ARM_ARCH_TIMER select ARM_GIC diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S index 43512d4d7df2..04c44c6f41b1 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S @@ -744,6 +744,8 @@ ENDPROC(cpu_switch_to) ret_fast_syscall: disable_irq // disable interrupts str x0, [sp, #S_X0] // returned x0 + ldr x2, [tsk, #TSK_TI_ADDR_LIMIT] // check addr limit change + tbnz x2, #63, addr_limit_fail ldr x1, [tsk, #TSK_TI_FLAGS] // re-check for syscall tracing and x2, x1, #_TIF_SYSCALL_WORK cbnz x2, ret_fast_syscall_trace @@ -771,6 +773,8 @@ work_pending: */ ret_to_user: disable_irq // disable interrupts + ldr x2, [tsk, #TSK_TI_ADDR_LIMIT] // check addr limit change + tbnz x2, #63, addr_limit_fail ldr x1, [tsk, #TSK_TI_FLAGS] and x2, x1, #_TIF_WORK_MASK cbnz x2, work_pending @@ -780,6 +784,14 @@ finish_ret_to_user: ENDPROC(ret_to_user) /* + * Address limit was incorrect before returning in user-mode which could be + * used to elevate privileges. Call the generic handler to stop the kernel on + * the appropriate check. This function does not return. + */ +addr_limit_fail: + b address_limit_check_failed + +/* * This is how we return from a fork. */ ENTRY(ret_from_fork) -- 2.12.2.715.g7642488e1d-goog -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html