This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
efi: libstub: Disable struct randomization
to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
efi-libstub-disable-struct-randomization.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 1a3887924a7e6edd331be76da7bf4c1e8eab4b1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 19:20:33 +0200
Subject: efi: libstub: Disable struct randomization
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 1a3887924a7e6edd331be76da7bf4c1e8eab4b1e upstream.
The EFI stub is a wrapper around the core kernel that makes it look like
a EFI compatible PE/COFF application to the EFI firmware. EFI
applications run on top of the EFI runtime, which is heavily based on
so-called protocols, which are struct types consisting [mostly] of
function pointer members that are instantiated and recorded in a
protocol database.
These structs look like the ideal randomization candidates to the
randstruct plugin (as they only carry function pointers), but of course,
these protocols are contracts between the firmware that exposes them,
and the EFI applications (including our stubbed kernel) that invoke
them. This means that struct randomization for EFI protocols is not a
great idea, and given that the stub shares very little data with the
core kernel that is represented as a randomizable struct, we're better
off just disabling it completely here.
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.14+
Reported-by: Daniel Marth <daniel.marth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Daniel Marth <daniel.marth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
@@ -37,6 +37,13 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS := $(cflags-y) -Os -DDIS
$(call cc-option,-fno-addrsig) \
-D__DISABLE_EXPORTS
+#
+# struct randomization only makes sense for Linux internal types, which the EFI
+# stub code never touches, so let's turn off struct randomization for the stub
+# altogether
+#
+KBUILD_CFLAGS := $(filter-out $(RANDSTRUCT_CFLAGS), $(KBUILD_CFLAGS))
+
# remove SCS flags from all objects in this directory
KBUILD_CFLAGS := $(filter-out $(CC_FLAGS_SCS), $(KBUILD_CFLAGS))
# disable LTO
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ardb@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.15/efi-capsule-loader-fix-use-after-free-in-efi_capsule_write.patch
queue-5.15/efi-libstub-disable-struct-randomization.patch
