On 07/19/2016 10:34 PM, Kees Cook wrote: [...] >> >> So what about for the CONFIG text: >> >> An architecture should select this if the kernel mapping has a secondary >> linear mapping of the kernel text - in other words more than one virtual >> kernel address that points to the kernel image. This is used to verify >> that kernel text exposures are not visible under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY. > > Sounds good, I've adjusted it for now. > >>> I wonder if I can avoid the CONFIG entirely if I just did a >>> __va(__pa(_stext)) != _stext test... would that break anyone? >> >> Can this be resolved on all platforms at compile time? > > Well, I think it still needs a runtime check (compile-time may not be > able to tell about kaslr, or who knows what else). I would really like > to avoid the CONFIG if possible, though. Would this do the right thing > on s390? This appears to work where I'm able to test it (32/64 x86, > 32/64 arm): > > unsigned long textlow = (unsigned long)_stext; > unsigned long texthigh = (unsigned long)_etext; > unsigned long textlow_linear = (unsigned long)__va(__pa(textlow); > unsigned long texthigh_linear = (unsigned long)__va(__pa(texthigh); > as we have #define PAGE_OFFSET 0x0UL #define __pa(x) (unsigned long)(x) #define __va(x) (void *)(unsigned long)(x) both should be identical on s390 as of today, so it should work fine and only do the check once > if (overlaps(ptr, n, textlow, texthigh)) > return "<kernel text>"; > > /* Check against possible secondary linear mapping as well. */ > if (textlow != textlow_linear && > overlaps(ptr, n, textlow_linear, texthigh_linear)) > return "<linear kernel text>"; > > return NULL; > > > -Kees > PS: Not sure how useful and flexible this offers is but you can get some temporary free access to an s390 on https://developer.ibm.com/linuxone/ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>