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arm64: mm: apply r/o permissions of VM areas to its linear alias as well
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On arm64, we use block mappings and contiguous hints to map the linear
region, to minimize the TLB footprint. However, this means that the
entire region is mapped using read/write permissions, which we cannot
modify at page granularity without having to take intrusive measures to
prevent TLB conflicts.

This means the linear aliases of pages belonging to read-only mappings
(executable or otherwise) in the vmalloc region are also mapped read/write,
and could potentially be abused to modify things like module code, bpf JIT
code or other read-only data.

So let's fix this, by extending the set_memory_ro/rw routines to take
the linear alias into account. The consequence of enabling this is
that we can no longer use block mappings or contiguous hints, so in
cases where the TLB footprint of the linear region is a bottleneck,
performance may be affected.

Therefore, allow this feature to be runtime en/disabled, by setting
rodata=full (or 'on' to disable just this enhancement, or 'off' to
disable read-only mappings for code and r/o data entirely) on the
kernel command line. Also, allow the default value to be set via a
Kconfig option.

Tested-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Ard Biesheuvel authored and Will Deacon committed Nov 20, 2018
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14 changes: 14 additions & 0 deletions arch/arm64/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -958,6 +958,20 @@ config ARM64_SSBD

If unsure, say Y.

config RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED
bool "Apply r/o permissions of VM areas also to their linear aliases"
default y
help
Apply read-only attributes of VM areas to the linear alias of
the backing pages as well. This prevents code or read-only data
from being modified (inadvertently or intentionally) via another
mapping of the same memory page. This additional enhancement can
be turned off at runtime by passing rodata=[off|on] (and turned on
with rodata=full if this option is set to 'n')

This requires the linear region to be mapped down to pages,
which may adversely affect performance in some cases.

menuconfig ARMV8_DEPRECATED
bool "Emulate deprecated/obsolete ARMv8 instructions"
depends on COMPAT
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h
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#include <asm/sysreg.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>

extern bool rodata_full;

static inline void contextidr_thread_switch(struct task_struct *next)
{
if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PID_IN_CONTEXTIDR))
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16 changes: 14 additions & 2 deletions arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
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Expand Up @@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgdp)
struct memblock_region *reg;
int flags = 0;

if (debug_pagealloc_enabled())
if (rodata_full || debug_pagealloc_enabled())
flags = NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS | NO_CONT_MAPPINGS;

/*
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static int __init parse_rodata(char *arg)
{
return strtobool(arg, &rodata_enabled);
int ret = strtobool(arg, &rodata_enabled);
if (!ret) {
rodata_full = false;
return 0;
}

/* permit 'full' in addition to boolean options */
if (strcmp(arg, "full"))
return -EINVAL;

rodata_enabled = true;
rodata_full = true;
return 0;
}
early_param("rodata", parse_rodata);

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15 changes: 15 additions & 0 deletions arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c
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Expand Up @@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ struct page_change_data {
pgprot_t clear_mask;
};

bool rodata_full __ro_after_init = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED);

static int change_page_range(pte_t *ptep, pgtable_t token, unsigned long addr,
void *data)
{
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unsigned long size = PAGE_SIZE*numpages;
unsigned long end = start + size;
struct vm_struct *area;
int i;

if (!PAGE_ALIGNED(addr)) {
start &= PAGE_MASK;
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if (!numpages)
return 0;

/*
* If we are manipulating read-only permissions, apply the same
* change to the linear mapping of the pages that back this VM area.
*/
if (rodata_full && (pgprot_val(set_mask) == PTE_RDONLY ||
pgprot_val(clear_mask) == PTE_RDONLY)) {
for (i = 0; i < area->nr_pages; i++) {
__change_memory_common((u64)page_address(area->pages[i]),
PAGE_SIZE, set_mask, clear_mask);
}
}

/*
* Get rid of potentially aliasing lazily unmapped vm areas that may
* have permissions set that deviate from the ones we are setting here.
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