This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm: revert x86_64 and arm64 ELF_ET_DYN_BASE base changes
to the 4.12-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:
mm-revert-x86_64-and-arm64-elf_et_dyn_base-base-changes.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From c715b72c1ba406f133217b509044c38d8e714a37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 15:16:31 -0700
Subject: mm: revert x86_64 and arm64 ELF_ET_DYN_BASE base changes
From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit c715b72c1ba406f133217b509044c38d8e714a37 upstream.
Moving the x86_64 and arm64 PIE base from 0x555555554000 to 0x000100000000
broke AddressSanitizer. This is a partial revert of:
eab09532d400 ("binfmt_elf: use ELF_ET_DYN_BASE only for PIE")
02445990a96e ("arm64: move ELF_ET_DYN_BASE to 4GB / 4MB")
The AddressSanitizer tool has hard-coded expectations about where
executable mappings are loaded.
The motivation for changing the PIE base in the above commits was to
avoid the Stack-Clash CVEs that allowed executable mappings to get too
close to heap and stack. This was mainly a problem on 32-bit, but the
64-bit bases were moved too, in an effort to proactively protect those
systems (proofs of concept do exist that show 64-bit collisions, but
other recent changes to fix stack accounting and setuid behaviors will
minimize the impact).
The new 32-bit PIE base is fine for ASan (since it matches the ET_EXEC
base), so only the 64-bit PIE base needs to be reverted to let x86 and
arm64 ASan binaries run again. Future changes to the 64-bit PIE base on
these architectures can be made optional once a more dynamic method for
dealing with AddressSanitizer is found. (e.g. always loading PIE into
the mmap region for marked binaries.)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170807201542.GA21271@beast
Fixes: eab09532d400 ("binfmt_elf: use ELF_ET_DYN_BASE only for PIE")
Fixes: 02445990a96e ("arm64: move ELF_ET_DYN_BASE to 4GB / 4MB")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h | 4 ++--
arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h
@@ -114,10 +114,10 @@
/*
* This is the base location for PIE (ET_DYN with INTERP) loads. On
- * 64-bit, this is raised to 4GB to leave the entire 32-bit address
+ * 64-bit, this is above 4GB to leave the entire 32-bit address
* space open for things that want to use the area for 32-bit pointers.
*/
-#define ELF_ET_DYN_BASE 0x100000000UL
+#define ELF_ET_DYN_BASE (2 * TASK_SIZE_64 / 3)
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h
@@ -247,11 +247,11 @@ extern int force_personality32;
/*
* This is the base location for PIE (ET_DYN with INTERP) loads. On
- * 64-bit, this is raised to 4GB to leave the entire 32-bit address
+ * 64-bit, this is above 4GB to leave the entire 32-bit address
* space open for things that want to use the area for 32-bit pointers.
*/
#define ELF_ET_DYN_BASE (mmap_is_ia32() ? 0x000400000UL : \
- 0x100000000UL)
+ (TASK_SIZE / 3 * 2))
/* This yields a mask that user programs can use to figure out what
instruction set this CPU supports. This could be done in user space,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.12/mm-revert-x86_64-and-arm64-elf_et_dyn_base-base-changes.patch