From: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> One of the reasons the lack of randomization of the linear map on arm64 is considered problematic is the fact that bootloaders adhering to the original arm64 boot protocol may place the kernel at the base of DRAM, and therefore at the base of the non-randomized linear map. This puts a writable alias of the kernel's data and bss regions at a predictable location, removing the need for an attacker to guess where KASLR mapped the kernel.
Let's unmap this linear, writable alias entirely, so that knowing the location of the linear alias does not give write access to the kernel's data and bss regions. Changes since v1: - Put zero page patch at the start of the series - Tweak __map_memblock() API to respect existing table and contiguous mappings, so that the logic to map the kernel alias can be simplified - Stop abusing the MEMBLOCK_NOMAP flag to initially omit the kernel linear alias from the linear map - Some additional cleanup patches - Use proper API [set_memory_valid()] to (un)map the linear alias of data/bss. Cc: Ryan Roberts <[email protected]> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <[email protected]> Cc: Liz Prucka <[email protected]> Cc: Seth Jenkins <[email protected]> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Ard Biesheuvel (10): arm64: Move the zero page to rodata arm64: Move fixmap page tables to end of kernel image arm64: mm: Permit contiguous descriptors to be rewritten arm64: mm: Preserve existing table mappings when mapping DRAM arm64: mm: Preserve non-contiguous descriptors when mapping DRAM arm64: mm: Remove bogus stop condition from map_mem() loop arm64: mm: Drop redundant pgd_t* argument from map_mem() arm64: mm: Don't abuse memblock NOMAP to check for overlaps arm64: mm: Map the kernel data/bss read-only in the linear map arm64: mm: Unmap kernel data/bss entirely from the linear map arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 4 + arch/arm64/include/asm/sections.h | 1 + arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 6 ++ arch/arm64/mm/fixmap.c | 7 +- arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 111 +++++++++++++------- 5 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-) base-commit: f8261772d6a032f18aacd4d1a18bca5bd4e4a368 -- 2.52.0.457.g6b5491de43-goog
