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author | Nadav Amit <[email protected]> | 2019-04-25 17:11:30 -0700 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2019-04-30 12:37:54 +0200 |
commit | 7298e24f904224fa79eb8fd7e0fbd78950ccf2db (patch) | |
tree | a018e0a4c2a38810c9a52cbcfdfd986e8052bf36 | |
parent | 3c0dab44e22782359a0a706cbce72de99a22aa75 (diff) |
x86/kprobes: Set instruction page as executable
Set the page as executable after allocation. This patch is a
preparatory patch for a following patch that makes module allocated
pages non-executable.
While at it, do some small cleanup of what appears to be unnecessary
masking.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
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Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c index fed46ddb1eef..06058c44ab57 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c @@ -431,8 +431,20 @@ void *alloc_insn_page(void) void *page; page = module_alloc(PAGE_SIZE); - if (page) - set_memory_ro((unsigned long)page & PAGE_MASK, 1); + if (!page) + return NULL; + + /* + * First make the page read-only, and only then make it executable to + * prevent it from being W+X in between. + */ + set_memory_ro((unsigned long)page, 1); + + /* + * TODO: Once additional kernel code protection mechanisms are set, ensure + * that the page was not maliciously altered and it is still zeroed. + */ + set_memory_x((unsigned long)page, 1); return page; } @@ -440,8 +452,12 @@ void *alloc_insn_page(void) /* Recover page to RW mode before releasing it */ void free_insn_page(void *page) { - set_memory_nx((unsigned long)page & PAGE_MASK, 1); - set_memory_rw((unsigned long)page & PAGE_MASK, 1); + /* + * First make the page non-executable, and only then make it writable to + * prevent it from being W+X in between. + */ + set_memory_nx((unsigned long)page, 1); + set_memory_rw((unsigned long)page, 1); module_memfree(page); } |