Introduce a section and a label for statically allocated write rare data. The label is named "__wr_after_init". As the name implies, after the init phase is completed, this section will be modifiable only by invoking write rare functions. The section must take up a set of full pages.
To activate both section and label, the arch must set CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PRMEM Signed-off-by: Igor Stoppa <igor.sto...@huawei.com> CC: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> CC: Nadav Amit <nadav.a...@gmail.com> CC: Matthew Wilcox <wi...@infradead.org> CC: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> CC: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> CC: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> CC: Mimi Zohar <zo...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> CC: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauer...@linux.ibm.com> CC: Ahmed Soliman <ahmedsoli...@mena.vt.edu> CC: linux-integr...@vger.kernel.org CC: kernel-harden...@lists.openwall.com CC: linux...@kvack.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- arch/Kconfig | 15 +++++++++++++++ include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/cache.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ init/main.c | 2 ++ 4 files changed, 63 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index e1e540ffa979..8668ffec8098 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -802,6 +802,21 @@ config VMAP_STACK the stack to map directly to the KASAN shadow map using a formula that is incorrect if the stack is in vmalloc space. +config ARCH_HAS_PRMEM + def_bool n + help + architecture specific symbol stating that the architecture provides + a back-end function for the write rare operation. + +config PRMEM + bool "Write protect critical data that doesn't need high write speed." + depends on ARCH_HAS_PRMEM + default y + help + If the architecture supports it, statically allocated data which + has been selected for hardening becomes (mostly) read-only. + The selection happens by labelling the data "__wr_after_init". + config ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX def_bool n diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index 3d7a6a9c2370..ddb1fd608490 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -311,6 +311,30 @@ KEEP(*(__jump_table)) \ __stop___jump_table = .; +/* + * Allow architectures to handle wr_after_init data on their + * own by defining an empty WR_AFTER_INIT_DATA. + * However, it's important that pages containing WR_RARE data do not + * hold anything else, to avoid both accidentally unprotecting something + * that is supposed to stay read-only all the time and also to protect + * something else that is supposed to be writeable all the time. + */ +#ifndef WR_AFTER_INIT_DATA +#ifdef CONFIG_PRMEM +#define WR_AFTER_INIT_DATA(align) \ + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \ + __start_wr_after_init = .; \ + . = ALIGN(align); \ + *(.data..wr_after_init) \ + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \ + __end_wr_after_init = .; \ + . = ALIGN(align); +#else +#define WR_AFTER_INIT_DATA(align) \ + . = ALIGN(align); +#endif +#endif + /* * Allow architectures to handle ro_after_init data on their * own by defining an empty RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA. @@ -332,6 +356,7 @@ __start_rodata = .; \ *(.rodata) *(.rodata.*) \ RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA /* Read only after init */ \ + WR_AFTER_INIT_DATA(align) /* wr after init */ \ KEEP(*(__vermagic)) /* Kernel version magic */ \ . = ALIGN(8); \ __start___tracepoints_ptrs = .; \ diff --git a/include/linux/cache.h b/include/linux/cache.h index 750621e41d1c..09bd0b9284b6 100644 --- a/include/linux/cache.h +++ b/include/linux/cache.h @@ -31,6 +31,27 @@ #define __ro_after_init __attribute__((__section__(".data..ro_after_init"))) #endif +/* + * __wr_after_init is used to mark objects that cannot be modified + * directly after init (i.e. after mark_rodata_ro() has been called). + * These objects become effectively read-only, from the perspective of + * performing a direct write, like a variable assignment. + * However, they can be altered through a dedicated function. + * It is intended for those objects which are occasionally modified after + * init, however they are modified so seldomly, that the extra cost from + * the indirect modification is either negligible or worth paying, for the + * sake of the protection gained. + */ +#ifndef __wr_after_init +#ifdef CONFIG_PRMEM +#define __wr_after_init \ + __attribute__((__section__(".data..wr_after_init"))) +#else +#define __wr_after_init +#endif +#endif + + #ifndef ____cacheline_aligned #define ____cacheline_aligned __attribute__((__aligned__(SMP_CACHE_BYTES))) #endif diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index a461150adfb1..a36f2e54f937 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -498,6 +498,7 @@ void __init __weak thread_stack_cache_init(void) void __init __weak mem_encrypt_init(void) { } void __init __weak poking_init(void) { } +void __init __weak wr_poking_init(void) { } bool initcall_debug; core_param(initcall_debug, initcall_debug, bool, 0644); @@ -734,6 +735,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init start_kernel(void) delayacct_init(); poking_init(); + wr_poking_init(); check_bugs(); acpi_subsystem_init(); -- 2.19.1