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authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>2021-01-29 10:19:07 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-02-17 11:02:24 +0100
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ARM: ensure the signal page contains defined contents
[ Upstream commit 9c698bff66ab4914bb3d71da7dc6112519bde23e ] Ensure that the signal page contains our poison instruction to increase the protection against ROP attacks and also contains well defined contents. Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/signal.c14
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
index 585edbfccf6d..2f81d3af5f9a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
@@ -693,18 +693,20 @@ struct page *get_signal_page(void)
addr = page_address(page);
+ /* Poison the entire page */
+ memset32(addr, __opcode_to_mem_arm(0xe7fddef1),
+ PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(u32));
+
/* Give the signal return code some randomness */
offset = 0x200 + (get_random_int() & 0x7fc);
signal_return_offset = offset;
- /*
- * Copy signal return handlers into the vector page, and
- * set sigreturn to be a pointer to these.
- */
+ /* Copy signal return handlers into the page */
memcpy(addr + offset, sigreturn_codes, sizeof(sigreturn_codes));
- ptr = (unsigned long)addr + offset;
- flush_icache_range(ptr, ptr + sizeof(sigreturn_codes));
+ /* Flush out all instructions in this page */
+ ptr = (unsigned long)addr;
+ flush_icache_range(ptr, ptr + PAGE_SIZE);
return page;
}