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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@MIT.EDU> | 2011-06-05 19:50:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-06-05 21:30:32 +0200 |
| commit | 9fd67b4ed0714ab718f1f9bd14c344af336a6df7 (patch) | |
| tree | 7dae7e978b68479b6ee316d92b81d703cee3a894 /arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | |
| parent | x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S (diff) | |
| download | linux-9fd67b4ed0714ab718f1f9bd14c344af336a6df7.tar.xz linux-9fd67b4ed0714ab718f1f9bd14c344af336a6df7.zip | |
x86-64: Give vvars their own page
Move vvars out of the vsyscall page into their own page and mark
it NX.
Without this patch, an attacker who can force a daemon to call
some fixed address could wait until the time contains, say,
0xCD80, and then execute the current time.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b1460f81dc4463d66ea3f2b5ce240f58d48effec.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 28 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 89aed99aafce..98b378dc7f86 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -161,12 +161,6 @@ SECTIONS #define VVIRT_OFFSET (VSYSCALL_ADDR - __vsyscall_0) #define VVIRT(x) (ADDR(x) - VVIRT_OFFSET) -#define EMIT_VVAR(x, offset) .vsyscall_var_ ## x \ - ADDR(.vsyscall_0) + offset \ - : AT(VLOAD(.vsyscall_var_ ## x)) { \ - *(.vsyscall_var_ ## x) \ - } \ - x = VVIRT(.vsyscall_var_ ## x); . = ALIGN(4096); __vsyscall_0 = .; @@ -192,19 +186,31 @@ SECTIONS *(.vsyscall_3) } -#define __VVAR_KERNEL_LDS -#include <asm/vvar.h> -#undef __VVAR_KERNEL_LDS - - . = __vsyscall_0 + PAGE_SIZE; + . = ALIGN(__vsyscall_0 + PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE); #undef VSYSCALL_ADDR #undef VLOAD_OFFSET #undef VLOAD #undef VVIRT_OFFSET #undef VVIRT + + __vvar_page = .; + + .vvar : AT(ADDR(.vvar) - LOAD_OFFSET) { + + /* Place all vvars at the offsets in asm/vvar.h. */ +#define EMIT_VVAR(name, offset) \ + . = offset; \ + *(.vvar_ ## name) +#define __VVAR_KERNEL_LDS +#include <asm/vvar.h> +#undef __VVAR_KERNEL_LDS #undef EMIT_VVAR + } :data + + . = ALIGN(__vvar_page + PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE); + #endif /* CONFIG_X86_64 */ /* Init code and data - will be freed after init */ |