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Move vvars out of the vsyscall page into their own page and mark it NX. Without this patch, an attacker who can force a daemon to call some fixed address could wait until the time contains, say, 0xCD80, and then execute the current time. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com> Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b1460f81dc4463d66ea3f2b5ce240f58d48effec.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
50 lines
1.5 KiB
C
50 lines
1.5 KiB
C
/*
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* vvar.h: Shared vDSO/kernel variable declarations
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* Copyright (c) 2011 Andy Lutomirski
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* Subject to the GNU General Public License, version 2
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*
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* A handful of variables are accessible (read-only) from userspace
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* code in the vsyscall page and the vdso. They are declared here.
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* Some other file must define them with DEFINE_VVAR.
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*
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* In normal kernel code, they are used like any other variable.
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* In user code, they are accessed through the VVAR macro.
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*
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* These variables live in a page of kernel data that has an extra RO
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* mapping for userspace. Each variable needs a unique offset within
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* that page; specify that offset with the DECLARE_VVAR macro. (If
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* you mess up, the linker will catch it.)
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*/
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/* Base address of vvars. This is not ABI. */
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#define VVAR_ADDRESS (-10*1024*1024 - 4096)
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#if defined(__VVAR_KERNEL_LDS)
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/* The kernel linker script defines its own magic to put vvars in the
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* right place.
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*/
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#define DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) \
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EMIT_VVAR(name, offset)
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#else
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#define DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) \
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static type const * const vvaraddr_ ## name = \
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(void *)(VVAR_ADDRESS + (offset));
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#define DEFINE_VVAR(type, name) \
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type name \
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__attribute__((section(".vvar_" #name), aligned(16)))
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#define VVAR(name) (*vvaraddr_ ## name)
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#endif
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/* DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) */
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DECLARE_VVAR(0, volatile unsigned long, jiffies)
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DECLARE_VVAR(16, int, vgetcpu_mode)
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DECLARE_VVAR(128, struct vsyscall_gtod_data, vsyscall_gtod_data)
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#undef DECLARE_VVAR
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