From 076ca272a14cea558b1092ec85cea08510283f2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 11:12:27 -0800 Subject: x86/vsyscall/64: Drop "native" vsyscalls Since Linux v3.2, vsyscalls have been deprecated and slow. From v3.2 on, Linux had three vsyscall modes: "native", "emulate", and "none". "emulate" is the default. All known user programs work correctly in emulate mode, but vsyscalls turn into page faults and are emulated. This is very slow. In "native" mode, the vsyscall page is easily usable as an exploit gadget, but vsyscalls are a bit faster -- they turn into normal syscalls. (This is in contrast to vDSO functions, which can be much faster than syscalls.) In "none" mode, there are no vsyscalls. For all practical purposes, "native" was really just a chicken bit in case something went wrong with the emulation. It's been over six years, and nothing has gone wrong. Delete it. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Acked-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dominik Brodowski Cc: Kernel Hardening Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/519fee5268faea09ae550776ce969fa6e88668b0.1520449896.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 11 +---------- arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c | 16 +++------------- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 2 -- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch') diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index c1aed6c0e413..09c599e0900d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -2266,7 +2266,7 @@ choice it can be used to assist security vulnerability exploitation. This setting can be changed at boot time via the kernel command - line parameter vsyscall=[native|emulate|none]. + line parameter vsyscall=[emulate|none]. On a system with recent enough glibc (2.14 or newer) and no static binaries, you can say None without a performance penalty @@ -2274,15 +2274,6 @@ choice If unsure, select "Emulate". - config LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NATIVE - bool "Native" - help - Actual executable code is located in the fixed vsyscall - address mapping, implementing time() efficiently. Since - this makes the mapping executable, it can be used during - security vulnerability exploitation (traditionally as - ROP gadgets). This configuration is not recommended. - config LEGACY_VSYSCALL_EMULATE bool "Emulate" help diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c index 577fa8adb785..8560ef68a9d6 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c @@ -42,10 +42,8 @@ #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS #include "vsyscall_trace.h" -static enum { EMULATE, NATIVE, NONE } vsyscall_mode = -#if defined(CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NATIVE) - NATIVE; -#elif defined(CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NONE) +static enum { EMULATE, NONE } vsyscall_mode = +#ifdef CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NONE NONE; #else EMULATE; @@ -56,8 +54,6 @@ static int __init vsyscall_setup(char *str) if (str) { if (!strcmp("emulate", str)) vsyscall_mode = EMULATE; - else if (!strcmp("native", str)) - vsyscall_mode = NATIVE; else if (!strcmp("none", str)) vsyscall_mode = NONE; else @@ -139,10 +135,6 @@ bool emulate_vsyscall(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address) WARN_ON_ONCE(address != regs->ip); - /* This should be unreachable in NATIVE mode. */ - if (WARN_ON(vsyscall_mode == NATIVE)) - return false; - if (vsyscall_mode == NONE) { warn_bad_vsyscall(KERN_INFO, regs, "vsyscall attempted with vsyscall=none"); @@ -370,9 +362,7 @@ void __init map_vsyscall(void) if (vsyscall_mode != NONE) { __set_fixmap(VSYSCALL_PAGE, physaddr_vsyscall, - vsyscall_mode == NATIVE - ? PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL - : PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR); + PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR); set_vsyscall_pgtable_user_bits(swapper_pg_dir); } diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h index 246f15b4e64c..acfe755562a6 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h @@ -174,7 +174,6 @@ enum page_cache_mode { #define __PAGE_KERNEL_RO (__PAGE_KERNEL & ~_PAGE_RW) #define __PAGE_KERNEL_RX (__PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC & ~_PAGE_RW) #define __PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE (__PAGE_KERNEL | _PAGE_NOCACHE) -#define __PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL (__PAGE_KERNEL_RX | _PAGE_USER) #define __PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR (__PAGE_KERNEL_RO | _PAGE_USER) #define __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE (__PAGE_KERNEL | _PAGE_PSE) #define __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC (__PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC | _PAGE_PSE) @@ -206,7 +205,6 @@ enum page_cache_mode { #define PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE __pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE | _PAGE_ENC) #define PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE __pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE | _PAGE_ENC) #define PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC __pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC | _PAGE_ENC) -#define PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL __pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL | _PAGE_ENC) #define PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR __pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR | _PAGE_ENC) #define PAGE_KERNEL_IO __pgprot(__PAGE_KERNEL_IO) -- cgit v1.2.3