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author | Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> | 2017-05-26 11:32:08 +1000 |
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committer | Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> | 2017-05-29 09:22:43 +1000 |
commit | 5d933e7c72c3f9731e84e640fef36932169f4eaf (patch) | |
tree | 3f6d1124a43d16dd3c739cb6d1cf137b08f591dd | |
parent | a2008596deb8308f55dce284fb3d6005bfb7da6f (diff) |
random,stackprotect: introduce get_random_canary function
Patch series "stackprotector: ascii armor the stack canary", v2.
Zero out the first byte of the stack canary value on 64 bit systems,
in order to mitigate unterminated C string overflows.
The null byte both prevents C string functions from reading the
canary, and from writing it if the canary value were guessed or
obtained through some other means.
Reducing the entropy by 8 bits is acceptable on 64-bit systems,
which will still have 56 bits of entropy left, but not on 32
bit systems, so the "ascii armor" canary is only implemented on
64-bit systems.
Inspired by the "ascii armor" code in execshield and Daniel Micay's
linux-hardened tree.
Also see https://github.com/thestinger/linux-hardened/
This patch (of 5):
Introduce get_random_canary(), which provides a random unsigned long
canary value with the first byte zeroed out on 64 bit architectures, in
order to mitigate non-terminated C string overflows.
The null byte both prevents C string functions from reading the canary,
and from writing it if the canary value were guessed or obtained through
some other means.
Reducing the entropy by 8 bits is acceptable on 64-bit systems, which will
still have 56 bits of entropy left, but not on 32 bit systems, so the
"ascii armor" canary is only implemented on 64-bit systems.
Inspired by the "ascii armor" code in the old execshield patches, and
Daniel Micay's linux-hardened tree.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524155751.424-2-riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/random.h | 21 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/random.h b/include/linux/random.h index ed5c3838780d..1fa0dc880bd7 100644 --- a/include/linux/random.h +++ b/include/linux/random.h @@ -57,6 +57,27 @@ static inline unsigned long get_random_long(void) #endif } +/* + * On 64-bit architectures, protect against non-terminated C string overflows + * by zeroing out the first byte of the canary; this leaves 56 bits of entropy. + */ +#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT +# ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN +# define CANARY_MASK 0xffffffffffffff00UL +# else /* big endian, 64 bits: */ +# define CANARY_MASK 0x00ffffffffffffffUL +# endif +#else /* 32 bits: */ +# define CANARY_MASK 0xffffffffUL +#endif + +static inline unsigned long get_random_canary(void) +{ + unsigned long val = get_random_long(); + + return val & CANARY_MASK; +} + unsigned long randomize_page(unsigned long start, unsigned long range); u32 prandom_u32(void); |