From 9fd67b4ed0714ab718f1f9bd14c344af336a6df7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 13:50:19 -0400 Subject: 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 Cc: Jesper Juhl Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Jan Beulich Cc: richard -rw- weinberger Cc: Mikael Pettersson Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Louis Rilling 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 --- arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h | 22 ++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h') diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h index a4eaca4a613..de656ac2af4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h @@ -10,15 +10,14 @@ * In normal kernel code, they are used like any other variable. * In user code, they are accessed through the VVAR macro. * - * Each of these variables lives in the vsyscall page, and each - * one needs a unique offset within the little piece of the page - * reserved for vvars. Specify that offset in DECLARE_VVAR. - * (There are 896 bytes available. If you mess up, the linker will - * catch it.) + * These variables live in a page of kernel data that has an extra RO + * mapping for userspace. Each variable needs a unique offset within + * that page; specify that offset with the DECLARE_VVAR macro. (If + * you mess up, the linker will catch it.) */ -/* Offset of vars within vsyscall page */ -#define VSYSCALL_VARS_OFFSET (3072 + 128) +/* Base address of vvars. This is not ABI. */ +#define VVAR_ADDRESS (-10*1024*1024 - 4096) #if defined(__VVAR_KERNEL_LDS) @@ -26,17 +25,17 @@ * right place. */ #define DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) \ - EMIT_VVAR(name, VSYSCALL_VARS_OFFSET + offset) + EMIT_VVAR(name, offset) #else #define DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) \ static type const * const vvaraddr_ ## name = \ - (void *)(VSYSCALL_START + VSYSCALL_VARS_OFFSET + (offset)); + (void *)(VVAR_ADDRESS + (offset)); #define DEFINE_VVAR(type, name) \ - type __vvar_ ## name \ - __attribute__((section(".vsyscall_var_" #name), aligned(16))) + type name \ + __attribute__((section(".vvar_" #name), aligned(16))) #define VVAR(name) (*vvaraddr_ ## name) @@ -49,4 +48,3 @@ DECLARE_VVAR(16, int, vgetcpu_mode) DECLARE_VVAR(128, struct vsyscall_gtod_data, vsyscall_gtod_data) #undef DECLARE_VVAR -#undef VSYSCALL_VARS_OFFSET -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2