On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 10:09:02AM +0200, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 1ad53d9fa3f6168ebcf48a50e08b170432da2257 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 21:04:23 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] slub: improve bit diffusion for freelist ptr obfuscation
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>
As previously promised, I've grabbed d5767057c9a7 ("uapi: rename
ext2_swab() to swab() and share globally in swab.h") so that we'll have
swab() on 4.19 and 4.14, but it wasn't enough.
There was another conflict with d36a63a943e3 ("kasan, slub: fix more
conflicts with CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED") which I've resolved by
simply doing:
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 958a8f7a3c253..d2db6bc5e788b 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ 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 *)swab((unsigned long)ptr ^ s->random ^ ptr_addr);
#else
return ptr;
#endif
--
Thanks,
Sasha
