From afaef01c001537fa97a25092d7f54d764dc7d8c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Popov Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 01:16:58 +0300 Subject: x86/entry: Add STACKLEAK erasing the kernel stack at the end of syscalls The STACKLEAK feature (initially developed by PaX Team) has the following benefits: 1. Reduces the information that can be revealed through kernel stack leak bugs. The idea of erasing the thread stack at the end of syscalls is similar to CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING and memzero_explicit() in kernel crypto, which all comply with FDP_RIP.2 (Full Residual Information Protection) of the Common Criteria standard. 2. Blocks some uninitialized stack variable attacks (e.g. CVE-2017-17712, CVE-2010-2963). That kind of bugs should be killed by improving C compilers in future, which might take a long time. This commit introduces the code filling the used part of the kernel stack with a poison value before returning to userspace. Full STACKLEAK feature also contains the gcc plugin which comes in a separate commit. The STACKLEAK feature is ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: https://grsecurity.net/ https://pax.grsecurity.net/ This code is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on our understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are ours and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code. Performance impact: Hardware: Intel Core i7-4770, 16 GB RAM Test #1: building the Linux kernel on a single core 0.91% slowdown Test #2: hackbench -s 4096 -l 2000 -g 15 -f 25 -P 4.2% slowdown So the STACKLEAK description in Kconfig includes: "The tradeoff is the performance impact: on a single CPU system kernel compilation sees a 1% slowdown, other systems and workloads may vary and you are advised to test this feature on your expected workload before deploying it". Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Kees Cook --- scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) (limited to 'scripts') diff --git a/scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig b/scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig index cb0c889e13aa..977b84e69787 100644 --- a/scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig +++ b/scripts/gcc-plugins/Kconfig @@ -139,4 +139,23 @@ config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE in structures. This reduces the performance hit of RANDSTRUCT at the cost of weakened randomization. +config GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK + bool "Erase the kernel stack before returning from syscalls" + depends on GCC_PLUGINS + depends on HAVE_ARCH_STACKLEAK + help + This option makes the kernel erase the kernel stack before + returning from system calls. That reduces the information which + kernel stack leak bugs can reveal and blocks some uninitialized + stack variable attacks. + + The tradeoff is the performance impact: on a single CPU system kernel + compilation sees a 1% slowdown, other systems and workloads may vary + and you are advised to test this feature on your expected workload + before deploying it. + + This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at: + * https://grsecurity.net/ + * https://pax.grsecurity.net/ + endif -- cgit v1.2.3