linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] x86/ftrace: Make sure that ftrace trampolines are not RWX

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Message-Id: <20170526184926.7cb902ab204e25552cc13071@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 26 May 2017 18:49:26 +0900
From:   Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] x86/ftrace: Make sure that ftrace trampolines are
 not RWX

On Thu, 25 May 2017 12:51:21 -0700
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...nel.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 10:57:51AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >> ftrace use module_alloc() to allocate trampoline pages. The mapping of
> >> module_alloc() is RWX, which makes sense as the memory is written to right
> >> after allocation. But nothing makes these pages RO after writing to them.
> >>
> >> Add proper set_memory_rw/ro() calls to protect the trampolines after
> >> modification.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> >> ---
> >>  arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c |   20 ++++++++++++++------
> >>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
> >> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
> >> @@ -689,8 +689,12 @@ static inline void *alloc_tramp(unsigned
> >>  {
> >>       return module_alloc(size);
> >>  }
> >> -static inline void tramp_free(void *tramp)
> >> +static inline void tramp_free(void *tramp, int size)
> >>  {
> >> +     int npages = PAGE_ALIGN(size) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> >> +
> >> +     set_memory_nx((unsigned long)tramp, npages);
> >> +     set_memory_rw((unsigned long)tramp, npages);
> >>       module_memfree(tramp);
> >>  }
> >
> > Can/should module_memfree() just do this for users? With Masami's fix that'd
> > be 2 users already.
> 
> It seems like it really should. That would put it in a single place
> and avoid this mistake again in the future. Does module_memfree() have
> access to the allocation size, or does that need to get plumbed?

module_memfree() is just a wrapper of vfree, so find_vm_area()
will help us to get the size.

Thank you,


> 
> -Kees
> 
> -- 
> Kees Cook
> Pixel Security


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>