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| author | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2013-07-23 18:37:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2013-07-31 22:01:48 +0100 |
| commit | f6f91b0d9fd971c630cef908dde8fe8795aefbf8 (patch) | |
| tree | 54032cefa513a3ae63971998caa90eea4736180c /arch/arm/mm | |
| parent | e39e3f3ebfef03450cf7bfa7a974a8c61f7980c8 (diff) | |
ARM: allow kuser helpers to be removed from the vector page
Provide a kernel configuration option to allow the kernel user helpers
to be removed from the vector page, thereby preventing their use with
ROP (return orientated programming) attacks. This option is only
visible for CPU architectures which natively support all the operations
which kernel user helpers would normally provide, and must be enabled
with caution.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/mm/Kconfig | 34 |
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig index 6cacdc8dd654..db5c2cab8fda 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig @@ -421,24 +421,28 @@ config CPU_32v3 select CPU_USE_DOMAINS if MMU select NEEDS_SYSCALL_FOR_CMPXCHG if SMP select TLS_REG_EMUL if SMP || !MMU + select NEED_KUSER_HELPERS config CPU_32v4 bool select CPU_USE_DOMAINS if MMU select NEEDS_SYSCALL_FOR_CMPXCHG if SMP select TLS_REG_EMUL if SMP || !MMU + select NEED_KUSER_HELPERS config CPU_32v4T bool select CPU_USE_DOMAINS if MMU select NEEDS_SYSCALL_FOR_CMPXCHG if SMP select TLS_REG_EMUL if SMP || !MMU + select NEED_KUSER_HELPERS config CPU_32v5 bool select CPU_USE_DOMAINS if MMU select NEEDS_SYSCALL_FOR_CMPXCHG if SMP select TLS_REG_EMUL if SMP || !MMU + select NEED_KUSER_HELPERS config CPU_32v6 bool @@ -776,6 +780,7 @@ config CPU_BPREDICT_DISABLE config TLS_REG_EMUL bool + select NEED_KUSER_HELPERS help An SMP system using a pre-ARMv6 processor (there are apparently a few prototypes like that in existence) and therefore access to @@ -783,11 +788,40 @@ config TLS_REG_EMUL config NEEDS_SYSCALL_FOR_CMPXCHG bool + select NEED_KUSER_HELPERS help SMP on a pre-ARMv6 processor? Well OK then. Forget about fast user space cmpxchg support. It is just not possible. +config NEED_KUSER_HELPERS + bool + +config KUSER_HELPERS + bool "Enable kuser helpers in vector page" if !NEED_KUSER_HELPERS + default y + help + Warning: disabling this option may break user programs. + + Provide kuser helpers in the vector page. The kernel provides + helper code to userspace in read only form at a fixed location + in the high vector page to allow userspace to be independent of + the CPU type fitted to the system. This permits binaries to be + run on ARMv4 through to ARMv7 without modification. + + However, the fixed address nature of these helpers can be used + by ROP (return orientated programming) authors when creating + exploits. + + If all of the binaries and libraries which run on your platform + are built specifically for your platform, and make no use of + these helpers, then you can turn this option off. However, + when such an binary or library is run, it will receive a SIGILL + signal, which will terminate the program. + + Say N here only if you are absolutely certain that you do not + need these helpers; otherwise, the safe option is to say Y. + config DMA_CACHE_RWFO bool "Enable read/write for ownership DMA cache maintenance" depends on CPU_V6K && SMP |