linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 6/7] arm64, elf: Disable automatic READ_IMPLIES

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Date:   Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:30:48 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Hector Marco-Gisbert <hecmargi@....es>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, x86@...nel.org,
        kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 6/7] arm64, elf: Disable automatic READ_IMPLIES_EXEC for 64-bit address spaces

With arm64 64-bit environments, there should never be a need for automatic
READ_IMPLIES_EXEC, as the architecture has always been execute-bit aware
(as in, the default memory protection should be NX unless a region
explicitly requests to be executable).

Suggested-by: Hector Marco-Gisbert <hecmargi@....es>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h | 4 ++--
 fs/compat_binfmt_elf.c       | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h
index 03ada29984a7..ea9221ed68a1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
  *             CPU*: | arm32      | arm64      |
  * ELF:              |            |            |
  * -------------------------------|------------|
- * missing GNU_STACK | exec-all   | exec-all   |
+ * missing GNU_STACK | exec-all   | exec-none  |
  * GNU_STACK == RWX  | exec-stack | exec-stack |
  * GNU_STACK == RW   | exec-none  | exec-none  |
  *
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
  *  *all arm64 CPUs support NX, so there is no "lacks NX" column.
  *
  */
-#define elf_read_implies_exec(ex,stk)	(stk == EXSTACK_DEFAULT)
+#define compat_elf_read_implies_exec(ex, stk)	(stk == EXSTACK_DEFAULT)
 
 #define CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET
 #define ELF_EXEC_PAGESIZE	PAGE_SIZE
diff --git a/fs/compat_binfmt_elf.c b/fs/compat_binfmt_elf.c
index aaad4ca1217e..3068d57436b3 100644
--- a/fs/compat_binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/compat_binfmt_elf.c
@@ -113,6 +113,11 @@
 #define	arch_setup_additional_pages compat_arch_setup_additional_pages
 #endif
 
+#ifdef	compat_elf_read_implies_exec
+#undef	elf_read_implies_exec
+#define	elf_read_implies_exec compat_elf_read_implies_exec
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Rename a few of the symbols that binfmt_elf.c will define.
  * These are all local so the names don't really matter, but it
-- 
2.20.1