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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2016-02-26 15:27:35 -0800
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2016-03-01 14:29:16 -0800
commit7c0ae5be821c1b6a700c5506de9b62e95f60df3c (patch)
tree8fc2ec6f89e2a2ceb36822397f47046ac22008c8 /drivers
parent5fd9e48084f5566aafb759882f549f37e5940501 (diff)
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lkdtm: improve use-after-free tests
This improves the order of operations on the use-after-free tests to try to make sure we've executed any available sanity-checking code, and to report the poisoning that was found. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/lkdtm.c19
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
index c333e813ed34..9345999f5673 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ static void lkdtm_do_action(enum ctype which)
break;
}
case CT_WRITE_AFTER_FREE: {
- int *base;
+ int *base, *again;
size_t len = 1024;
/*
* The slub allocator uses the first word to store the free
@@ -428,10 +428,16 @@ static void lkdtm_do_action(enum ctype which)
base = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
pr_info("Allocated memory %p-%p\n", base, &base[offset * 2]);
- kfree(base);
pr_info("Attempting bad write to freed memory at %p\n",
&base[offset]);
+ kfree(base);
base[offset] = 0x0abcdef0;
+ /* Attempt to notice the overwrite. */
+ again = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ kfree(again);
+ if (again != base)
+ pr_info("Hmm, didn't get the same memory range.\n");
+
break;
}
case CT_READ_AFTER_FREE: {
@@ -462,7 +468,7 @@ static void lkdtm_do_action(enum ctype which)
saw = base[offset];
if (saw != *val) {
/* Good! Poisoning happened, so declare a win. */
- pr_info("Memory correctly poisoned, calling BUG\n");
+ pr_info("Memory correctly poisoned (%x)\n", saw);
BUG();
}
pr_info("Memory was not poisoned\n");
@@ -480,6 +486,11 @@ static void lkdtm_do_action(enum ctype which)
schedule();
pr_info("Attempting bad write to the buddy page after free\n");
memset((void *)p, 0x78, PAGE_SIZE);
+ /* Attempt to notice the overwrite. */
+ p = __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+ free_page(p);
+ schedule();
+
break;
}
case CT_READ_BUDDY_AFTER_FREE: {
@@ -503,7 +514,7 @@ static void lkdtm_do_action(enum ctype which)
saw = base[0];
if (saw != *val) {
/* Good! Poisoning happened, so declare a win. */
- pr_info("Buddy page correctly poisoned, calling BUG\n");
+ pr_info("Memory correctly poisoned (%x)\n", saw);
BUG();
}
pr_info("Buddy page was not poisoned\n");