commit 1ad53d9fa3f6168ebcf48a50e08b170432da2257 upstream. Under CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED=y, the obfuscation was relatively weak in that the ptr and ptr address were usually so close that the first XOR would result in an almost entirely 0-byte value[1], leaving most of the "secret" number ultimately being stored after the third XOR. A single blind memory content exposure of the freelist was generally sufficient to learn the secret. Add a swab() call to mix bits a little more. This is a cheap way (1 cycle) to make attacks need more than a single exposure to learn the secret (or to know _where_ the exposure is in memory). kmalloc-32 freelist walk, before: ptr ptr_addr stored value secret ffff90c22e019020@ffff90c22e019000 is 86528eb656b3b5bd (86528eb656b3b59d) ffff90c22e019040@ffff90c22e019020 is 86528eb656b3b5fd (86528eb656b3b59d) ffff90c22e019060@ffff90c22e019040 is 86528eb656b3b5bd (86528eb656b3b59d) ffff90c22e019080@ffff90c22e019060 is 86528eb656b3b57d (86528eb656b3b59d) ffff90c22e0190a0@ffff90c22e019080 is 86528eb656b3b5bd (86528eb656b3b59d) ... after: ptr ptr_addr stored value secret ffff9eed6e019020@ffff9eed6e019000 is 793d1135d52cda42 (86528eb656b3b59d) ffff9eed6e019040@ffff9eed6e019020 is 593d1135d52cda22 (86528eb656b3b59d) ffff9eed6e019060@ffff9eed6e019040 is 393d1135d52cda02 (86528eb656b3b59d) ffff9eed6e019080@ffff9eed6e019060 is 193d1135d52cdae2 (86528eb656b3b59d) ffff9eed6e0190a0@ffff9eed6e019080 is f93d1135d52cdac2 (86528eb656b3b59d) [1] https://blog.infosectcbr.com.au/2020/03/weaknesses-in-linux-kernel-heap.html Fixes: 2482ddec670f ("mm: add SLUB free list pointer obfuscation") Reported-by: Silvio Cesare <silvio.cesare@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/202003051623.AF4F8CB@keescook Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [kees: Backport to v4.19 which doesn't call kasan_reset_untag()] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- This requires that commit d5767057c9a76a29f073dad66b7fa12a90e8c748 is also cherry-picked into -stable. --- mm/slub.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 9b7b989273d4..d8116a43a287 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ static inline void *freelist_ptr(const struct kmem_cache *s, void *ptr, unsigned long ptr_addr) { #ifdef CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED - return (void *)((unsigned long)ptr ^ s->random ^ ptr_addr); + return (void *)((unsigned long)ptr ^ s->random ^ swab(ptr_addr)); #else return ptr; #endif -- 2.20.1 -- Kees Cook
