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mm: Implement stack frame object validation
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This creates per-architecture function arch_within_stack_frames() that
should validate if a given object is contained by a kernel stack frame.
Initial implementation is on x86.

This is based on code from PaX.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
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9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions arch/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -424,6 +424,15 @@ config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG

endchoice

config HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
bool
help
An architecture should select this if it can walk the kernel stack
frames to determine if an object is part of either the arguments
or local variables (i.e. that it excludes saved return addresses,
and similar) by implementing an inline arch_within_stack_frames(),
which is used by CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.

config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
bool
help
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions arch/x86/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ config X86
select HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY if X86_64
select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
select HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
select HAVE_EBPF_JIT if X86_64
select HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
select HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
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44 changes: 44 additions & 0 deletions arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
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Expand Up @@ -180,6 +180,50 @@ static inline unsigned long current_stack_pointer(void)
return sp;
}

/*
* Walks up the stack frames to make sure that the specified object is
* entirely contained by a single stack frame.
*
* Returns:
* 1 if within a frame
* -1 if placed across a frame boundary (or outside stack)
* 0 unable to determine (no frame pointers, etc)
*/
static inline int arch_within_stack_frames(const void * const stack,
const void * const stackend,
const void *obj, unsigned long len)
{
#if defined(CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER)
const void *frame = NULL;
const void *oldframe;

oldframe = __builtin_frame_address(1);
if (oldframe)
frame = __builtin_frame_address(2);
/*
* low ----------------------------------------------> high
* [saved bp][saved ip][args][local vars][saved bp][saved ip]
* ^----------------^
* allow copies only within here
*/
while (stack <= frame && frame < stackend) {
/*
* If obj + len extends past the last frame, this
* check won't pass and the next frame will be 0,
* causing us to bail out and correctly report
* the copy as invalid.
*/
if (obj + len <= frame)
return obj >= oldframe + 2 * sizeof(void *) ? 1 : -1;
oldframe = frame;
frame = *(const void * const *)frame;
}
return -1;
#else
return 0;
#endif
}

#else /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
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9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions include/linux/thread_info.h
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Expand Up @@ -146,6 +146,15 @@ static inline bool test_and_clear_restore_sigmask(void)
#error "no set_restore_sigmask() provided and default one won't work"
#endif

#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
static inline int arch_within_stack_frames(const void * const stack,
const void * const stackend,
const void *obj, unsigned long len)
{
return 0;
}
#endif

#endif /* __KERNEL__ */

#endif /* _LINUX_THREAD_INFO_H */

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