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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 10:57:41 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@...ux.intel.com>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>,
Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>,
Jing Yangyang <jing.yangyang@....com.cn>,
Abaci Robot <abaci@...ux.alibaba.com>,
Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@...ux.alibaba.com>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>,
Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
"H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@...delico.com>,
Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] x86/boot/compressed: Avoid duplicate malloc() implementations
The early malloc() and free() implementation in include/linux/decompress/mm.h
(which is also included by the static decompressors) is static. This is
fine when the only thing interested in using malloc() is the decompression
code, but the x86 early boot environment may use malloc() in a couple places,
leading to a potential collision when the static copies of the available
memory region ("malloc_ptr") gets reset to the global "free_mem_ptr" value.
As it happened, the existing usage pattern was accidentally safe because each
user did 1 malloc() and 1 free() before returning and were not nested:
extract_kernel() (misc.c)
choose_random_location() (kaslr.c)
mem_avoid_init()
handle_mem_options()
malloc()
...
free()
...
parse_elf() (misc.c)
malloc()
...
free()
Once the future FGKASLR series is added, however, it will insert
additional malloc() calls local to fgkaslr.c in the middle of
parse_elf()'s malloc()/free() pair:
parse_elf() (misc.c)
malloc()
if (...) {
layout_randomized_image(output, &ehdr, phdrs);
malloc() <- boom
...
else
layout_image(output, &ehdr, phdrs);
free()
To avoid collisions, there must be a single implementation of malloc().
Adjust include/linux/decompress/mm.h so that visibility can be
controlled, provide prototypes in misc.h, and implement the functions in
misc.c. This also results in a small size savings:
$ size vmlinux.before vmlinux.after
text data bss dec hex filename
8842314 468 178320 9021102 89a6ae vmlinux.before
8842240 468 178320 9021028 89a664 vmlinux.after
Fixed-by: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c | 4 ----
arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c | 3 +++
arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h | 2 ++
include/linux/decompress/mm.h | 12 ++++++++++--
4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
index 67c3208b668a..411b268bc0a2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c
@@ -32,10 +32,6 @@
#include <generated/utsrelease.h>
#include <asm/efi.h>
-/* Macros used by the included decompressor code below. */
-#define STATIC
-#include <linux/decompress/mm.h>
-
#define _SETUP
#include <asm/setup.h> /* For COMMAND_LINE_SIZE */
#undef _SETUP
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
index 743f13ea25c1..a4339cb2d247 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@
/* Macros used by the included decompressor code below. */
#define STATIC static
+/* Define an externally visible malloc()/free(). */
+#define MALLOC_VISIBLE
+#include <linux/decompress/mm.h>
/*
* Provide definitions of memzero and memmove as some of the decompressors will
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h
index 31139256859f..975ef4ae7395 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ extern char _head[], _end[];
/* misc.c */
extern memptr free_mem_ptr;
extern memptr free_mem_end_ptr;
+void *malloc(int size);
+void free(void *where);
extern struct boot_params *boot_params;
void __putstr(const char *s);
void __puthex(unsigned long value);
diff --git a/include/linux/decompress/mm.h b/include/linux/decompress/mm.h
index 868e9eacd69e..9192986b1a73 100644
--- a/include/linux/decompress/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/decompress/mm.h
@@ -25,13 +25,21 @@
#define STATIC_RW_DATA static
#endif
+/*
+ * When an architecture needs to share the malloc()/free() implementation
+ * between compilation units, it needs to have non-local visibility.
+ */
+#ifndef MALLOC_VISIBLE
+#define MALLOC_VISIBLE static
+#endif
+
/* A trivial malloc implementation, adapted from
* malloc by Hannu Savolainen 1993 and Matthias Urlichs 1994
*/
STATIC_RW_DATA unsigned long malloc_ptr;
STATIC_RW_DATA int malloc_count;
-static void *malloc(int size)
+MALLOC_VISIBLE void *malloc(int size)
{
void *p;
@@ -52,7 +60,7 @@ static void *malloc(int size)
return p;
}
-static void free(void *where)
+MALLOC_VISIBLE void free(void *where)
{
malloc_count--;
if (!malloc_count)
--
2.30.2
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