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-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h54
-rw-r--r--mm/mmap.c4
2 files changed, 50 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index f6c2ebde62b3..97eddc83d19c 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -342,7 +342,36 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PKEYS */
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_USER_SHADOW_STACK
-# define VM_SHADOW_STACK VM_HIGH_ARCH_5 /* Should not be set with VM_SHARED */
+/*
+ * This flag should not be set with VM_SHARED because of lack of support
+ * core mm. It will also get a guard page. This helps userspace protect
+ * itself from attacks. The reasoning is as follows:
+ *
+ * The shadow stack pointer(SSP) is moved by CALL, RET, and INCSSPQ. The
+ * INCSSP instruction can increment the shadow stack pointer. It is the
+ * shadow stack analog of an instruction like:
+ *
+ * addq $0x80, %rsp
+ *
+ * However, there is one important difference between an ADD on %rsp
+ * and INCSSP. In addition to modifying SSP, INCSSP also reads from the
+ * memory of the first and last elements that were "popped". It can be
+ * thought of as acting like this:
+ *
+ * READ_ONCE(ssp); // read+discard top element on stack
+ * ssp += nr_to_pop * 8; // move the shadow stack
+ * READ_ONCE(ssp-8); // read+discard last popped stack element
+ *
+ * The maximum distance INCSSP can move the SSP is 2040 bytes, before
+ * it would read the memory. Therefore a single page gap will be enough
+ * to prevent any operation from shifting the SSP to an adjacent stack,
+ * since it would have to land in the gap at least once, causing a
+ * fault.
+ *
+ * Prevent using INCSSP to move the SSP between shadow stacks by
+ * having a PAGE_SIZE guard gap.
+ */
+# define VM_SHADOW_STACK VM_HIGH_ARCH_5
#else
# define VM_SHADOW_STACK VM_NONE
#endif
@@ -405,6 +434,8 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
#define VM_STACK_DEFAULT_FLAGS VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS
#endif
+#define VM_STARTGAP_FLAGS (VM_GROWSDOWN | VM_SHADOW_STACK)
+
#ifdef CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP
#define VM_STACK VM_GROWSUP
#define VM_STACK_EARLY VM_GROWSDOWN
@@ -3273,15 +3304,26 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vma_lookup(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
return mtree_load(&mm->mm_mt, addr);
}
+static inline unsigned long stack_guard_start_gap(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ if (vma->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN)
+ return stack_guard_gap;
+
+ /* See reasoning around the VM_SHADOW_STACK definition */
+ if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHADOW_STACK)
+ return PAGE_SIZE;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
static inline unsigned long vm_start_gap(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
+ unsigned long gap = stack_guard_start_gap(vma);
unsigned long vm_start = vma->vm_start;
- if (vma->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN) {
- vm_start -= stack_guard_gap;
- if (vm_start > vma->vm_start)
- vm_start = 0;
- }
+ vm_start -= gap;
+ if (vm_start > vma->vm_start)
+ vm_start = 0;
return vm_start;
}
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 4900f7471820..11dcf50cb933 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1572,7 +1572,7 @@ retry:
gap = mas.index;
gap += (info->align_offset - gap) & info->align_mask;
tmp = mas_next(&mas, ULONG_MAX);
- if (tmp && (tmp->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN)) { /* Avoid prev check if possible */
+ if (tmp && (tmp->vm_flags & VM_STARTGAP_FLAGS)) { /* Avoid prev check if possible */
if (vm_start_gap(tmp) < gap + length - 1) {
low_limit = tmp->vm_end;
mas_reset(&mas);
@@ -1624,7 +1624,7 @@ retry:
gap -= (gap - info->align_offset) & info->align_mask;
gap_end = mas.last;
tmp = mas_next(&mas, ULONG_MAX);
- if (tmp && (tmp->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN)) { /* Avoid prev check if possible */
+ if (tmp && (tmp->vm_flags & VM_STARTGAP_FLAGS)) { /* Avoid prev check if possible */
if (vm_start_gap(tmp) <= gap_end) {
high_limit = vm_start_gap(tmp);
mas_reset(&mas);