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authorAlexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>2018-08-17 00:17:03 +0200
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2018-09-04 19:35:48 +0200
commit964c9dff0091893a9a74a88edf984c6da0b779f7 (patch)
tree162d45af3ac44401db524294e67e396ddee476f4 /kernel/stackleak.c
parentdoc: self-protection: Add information about STACKLEAK feature (diff)
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stackleak: Allow runtime disabling of kernel stack erasing
Introduce CONFIG_STACKLEAK_RUNTIME_DISABLE option, which provides 'stack_erasing' sysctl. It can be used in runtime to control kernel stack erasing for kernels built with CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com> Tested-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/stackleak.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/stackleak.c38
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/stackleak.c b/kernel/stackleak.c
index f66239572c89..e42892926244 100644
--- a/kernel/stackleak.c
+++ b/kernel/stackleak.c
@@ -12,6 +12,41 @@
#include <linux/stackleak.h>
+#ifdef CONFIG_STACKLEAK_RUNTIME_DISABLE
+#include <linux/jump_label.h>
+#include <linux/sysctl.h>
+
+static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(stack_erasing_bypass);
+
+int stack_erasing_sysctl(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+ void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ int ret = 0;
+ int state = !static_branch_unlikely(&stack_erasing_bypass);
+ int prev_state = state;
+
+ table->data = &state;
+ table->maxlen = sizeof(int);
+ ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+ state = !!state;
+ if (ret || !write || state == prev_state)
+ return ret;
+
+ if (state)
+ static_branch_disable(&stack_erasing_bypass);
+ else
+ static_branch_enable(&stack_erasing_bypass);
+
+ pr_warn("stackleak: kernel stack erasing is %s\n",
+ state ? "enabled" : "disabled");
+ return ret;
+}
+
+#define skip_erasing() static_branch_unlikely(&stack_erasing_bypass)
+#else
+#define skip_erasing() false
+#endif /* CONFIG_STACKLEAK_RUNTIME_DISABLE */
+
asmlinkage void stackleak_erase(void)
{
/* It would be nice not to have 'kstack_ptr' and 'boundary' on stack */
@@ -20,6 +55,9 @@ asmlinkage void stackleak_erase(void)
unsigned int poison_count = 0;
const unsigned int depth = STACKLEAK_SEARCH_DEPTH / sizeof(unsigned long);
+ if (skip_erasing())
+ return;
+
/* Check that 'lowest_stack' value is sane */
if (unlikely(kstack_ptr - boundary >= THREAD_SIZE))
kstack_ptr = boundary;