Commit 4e26d11f authored Mar 27, 2015 by Hector Marco-Gisbert Committed by Ingo Molnar Mar 31, 2015

x86/mm: Improve AMD Bulldozer ASLR workaround

The ASLR implementation needs to special-case AMD F15h processors by
clearing out bits [14:12] of the virtual address in order to avoid I$
cross invalidations and thus performance penalty for certain workloads.
For details, see:

  dfb09f9b ("x86, amd: Avoid cache aliasing penalties on AMD family 15h")

This special case reduces the mmapped file's entropy by 3 bits.

The following output is the run on an AMD Opteron 62xx class CPU
processor under x86_64 Linux 4.0.0:

  $ for i in `seq 1 10`; do cat /proc/self/maps | grep "r-xp.*libc" ; done
  b7588000-b7736000 r-xp 00000000 00:01 4924       /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
  b7570000-b771e000 r-xp 00000000 00:01 4924       /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
  b75d0000-b777e000 r-xp 00000000 00:01 4924       /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
  b75b0000-b775e000 r-xp 00000000 00:01 4924       /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
  b7578000-b7726000 r-xp 00000000 00:01 4924       /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
  ...

Bits [12:14] are always 0, i.e. the address always ends in 0x8000 or
0x0000.

32-bit systems, as in the example above, are especially sensitive
to this issue because 32-bit randomness for VA space is 8 bits (see
mmap_rnd()). With the Bulldozer special case, this diminishes to only 32
different slots of mmap virtual addresses.

This patch randomizes per boot the three affected bits rather than
setting them to zero. Since all the shared pages have the same value
at bits [12..14], there is no cache aliasing problems. This value gets
generated during system boot and it is thus not known to a potential
remote attacker. Therefore, the impact from the Bulldozer workaround
gets diminished and ASLR randomness increased.

More details at:

  http://hmarco.org/bugs/AMD-Bulldozer-linux-ASLR-weakness-reducing-mmaped-files-by-eight.html

Original white paper by AMD dealing with the issue:

  http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/SharedL1InstructionCacheonAMD15hCPU.pdf



Mentored-by: Ismael Ripoll <iripoll@disca.upv.es>
Signed-off-by: Hector Marco-Gisbert <hecmargi@upv.es>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jan-Simon <dl9pf@gmx.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427456301-3764-1-git-send-email-hecmargi@upv.es


Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

parent c709feda

arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h

+1 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -365,6 +365,7 @@ enum align_flags {
		struct va_alignment {
		int flags;
		unsigned long mask;
		unsigned long bits;
		} ____cacheline_aligned;

		extern struct va_alignment va_align;

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c

+4 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@

		#include <linux/io.h>
		#include <linux/sched.h>
		#include <linux/random.h>
		#include <asm/processor.h>
		#include <asm/apic.h>
		#include <asm/cpu.h>
		@@ -488,6 +489,9 @@ static void bsp_init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)

		va_align.mask = (upperbit - 1) & PAGE_MASK;
		va_align.flags = ALIGN_VA_32 \| ALIGN_VA_64;

		/* A random value per boot for bit slice [12:upper_bit) */
		va_align.bits = get_random_int() & va_align.mask;
		}
		}

arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c

+27 −3

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -34,10 +34,26 @@ static unsigned long get_align_mask(void)
		return va_align.mask;
		}

		/*
		* To avoid aliasing in the I$ on AMD F15h, the bits defined by the
		* va_align.bits, [12:upper_bit), are set to a random value instead of
		* zeroing them. This random value is computed once per boot. This form
		* of ASLR is known as "per-boot ASLR".
		*
		* To achieve this, the random value is added to the info.align_offset
		* value before calling vm_unmapped_area() or ORed directly to the
		* address.
		*/
		static unsigned long get_align_bits(void)
		{
		return va_align.bits & get_align_mask();
		}

		unsigned long align_vdso_addr(unsigned long addr)
		{
		unsigned long align_mask = get_align_mask();
		return (addr + align_mask) & ~align_mask;
		addr = (addr + align_mask) & ~align_mask;
		return addr \| get_align_bits();
		}

		static int __init control_va_addr_alignment(char *str)
		@@ -135,8 +151,12 @@ arch_get_unmapped_area(struct file *filp, unsigned long addr,
		info.length = len;
		info.low_limit = begin;
		info.high_limit = end;
		info.align_mask = filp ? get_align_mask() : 0;
		info.align_mask = 0;
		info.align_offset = pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT;
		if (filp) {
		info.align_mask = get_align_mask();
		info.align_offset += get_align_bits();
		}
		return vm_unmapped_area(&info);
		}

		@@ -174,8 +194,12 @@ arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(struct file *filp, const unsigned long addr0,
		info.length = len;
		info.low_limit = PAGE_SIZE;
		info.high_limit = mm->mmap_base;
		info.align_mask = filp ? get_align_mask() : 0;
		info.align_mask = 0;
		info.align_offset = pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT;
		if (filp) {
		info.align_mask = get_align_mask();
		info.align_offset += get_align_bits();
		}
		addr = vm_unmapped_area(&info);
		if (!(addr & ~PAGE_MASK))
		return addr;

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