From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 9c698bff66ab4914bb3d71da7dc6112519bde23e ] Ensure that the signal page contains our poison instruction to increase the protection against ROP attacks and also contains well defined contents. Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/kernel/signal.c | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c index b908382b69ff5..1c01358b9b6db 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c @@ -697,18 +697,20 @@ struct page *get_signal_page(void) addr = page_address(page); + /* Poison the entire page */ + memset32(addr, __opcode_to_mem_arm(0xe7fddef1), + PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(u32)); + /* Give the signal return code some randomness */ offset = 0x200 + (get_random_int() & 0x7fc); signal_return_offset = offset; - /* - * Copy signal return handlers into the vector page, and - * set sigreturn to be a pointer to these. - */ + /* Copy signal return handlers into the page */ memcpy(addr + offset, sigreturn_codes, sizeof(sigreturn_codes)); - ptr = (unsigned long)addr + offset; - flush_icache_range(ptr, ptr + sizeof(sigreturn_codes)); + /* Flush out all instructions in this page */ + ptr = (unsigned long)addr; + flush_icache_range(ptr, ptr + PAGE_SIZE); return page; } -- 2.27.0
