Updated: [PATCH] hardening: add PROT_FINAL prot flag to mmap/mprotect

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Wed Oct 03 2012 - 10:45:57 EST


This patch adds support for the PROT_FINAL flag to
the mmap() and mprotect() syscalls.

The PROT_FINAL flag indicates that the requested set
of protection bits should be final, i.e., it shall
not be allowed for a subsequent mprotect call to
set protection bits that were not set already.

This is mainly intended for the dynamic linker,
which sets up the address space on behalf of
dynamic binaries. By using this flag, it can
prevent exploited code from remapping read-only
executable code or data sections read-write.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/alpha/include/asm/mman.h | 1 +
arch/mips/include/asm/mman.h | 1 +
arch/parisc/include/asm/mman.h | 1 +
arch/powerpc/include/asm/mman.h | 3 ++-
arch/xtensa/include/asm/mman.h | 1 +
include/asm-generic/mman-common.h | 1 +
include/linux/mman.h | 3 ++-
mm/mmap.c | 8 ++++++++
mm/mprotect.c | 8 ++++++++
9 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/asm/mman.h b/arch/alpha/include/asm/mman.h
index cbeb361..ab46252 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/mman.h
+++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/mman.h
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
#define PROT_EXEC 0x4 /* page can be executed */
#define PROT_SEM 0x8 /* page may be used for atomic ops */
#define PROT_NONE 0x0 /* page can not be accessed */
+#define PROT_FINAL 0x80 /* unset page prot bits cannot be set later */
#define PROT_GROWSDOWN 0x01000000 /* mprotect flag: extend change to start of growsdown vma */
#define PROT_GROWSUP 0x02000000 /* mprotect flag: extend change to end of growsup vma */

diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/mman.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/mman.h
index 46d3da0..9cd50e4 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/mman.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/mman.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#define PROT_EXEC 0x04 /* page can be executed */
/* 0x08 reserved for PROT_EXEC_NOFLUSH */
#define PROT_SEM 0x10 /* page may be used for atomic ops */
+#define PROT_FINAL 0x80 /* unset page prot bits cannot be set later */
#define PROT_GROWSDOWN 0x01000000 /* mprotect flag: extend change to start of growsdown vma */
#define PROT_GROWSUP 0x02000000 /* mprotect flag: extend change to end of growsup vma */

diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/asm/mman.h b/arch/parisc/include/asm/mman.h
index 12219eb..0cf18e3 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/mman.h
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/mman.h
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
#define PROT_EXEC 0x4 /* page can be executed */
#define PROT_SEM 0x8 /* page may be used for atomic ops */
#define PROT_NONE 0x0 /* page can not be accessed */
+#define PROT_FINAL 0x80 /* unset page prot bits cannot be set later */
#define PROT_GROWSDOWN 0x01000000 /* mprotect flag: extend change to start of growsdown vma */
#define PROT_GROWSUP 0x02000000 /* mprotect flag: extend change to end of growsup vma */

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mman.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mman.h
index d4a7f64..c0014eb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mman.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mman.h
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ static inline pgprot_t arch_vm_get_page_prot(unsigned long vm_flags)

static inline int arch_validate_prot(unsigned long prot)
{
- if (prot & ~(PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC | PROT_SEM | PROT_SAO))
+ if (prot & ~(PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC | PROT_SEM
+ | PROT_SAO | PROT_FINAL))
return 0;
if ((prot & PROT_SAO) && !cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_SAO))
return 0;
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/mman.h b/arch/xtensa/include/asm/mman.h
index 25bc6c1..680b3c4 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/mman.h
+++ b/arch/xtensa/include/asm/mman.h
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#define PROT_EXEC 0x4 /* page can be executed */

#define PROT_SEM 0x10 /* page may be used for atomic ops */
+#define PROT_FINAL 0x80 /* unset page prot bits cannot be set later */
#define PROT_GROWSDOWN 0x01000000 /* mprotect flag: extend change to start of growsdown vma */
#define PROT_GROWSUP 0x02000000 /* mprotect flag: extend change to end fo growsup vma */

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/mman-common.h b/include/asm-generic/mman-common.h
index d030d2c..5687993 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/mman-common.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/mman-common.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#define PROT_WRITE 0x2 /* page can be written */
#define PROT_EXEC 0x4 /* page can be executed */
#define PROT_SEM 0x8 /* page may be used for atomic ops */
+#define PROT_FINAL 0x80 /* unset page prot bits cannot be set later */
#define PROT_NONE 0x0 /* page can not be accessed */
#define PROT_GROWSDOWN 0x01000000 /* mprotect flag: extend change to start of growsdown vma */
#define PROT_GROWSUP 0x02000000 /* mprotect flag: extend change to end of growsup vma */
diff --git a/include/linux/mman.h b/include/linux/mman.h
index 8b74e9b..c11b1ab 100644
--- a/include/linux/mman.h
+++ b/include/linux/mman.h
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ static inline void vm_unacct_memory(long pages)
*/
static inline int arch_validate_prot(unsigned long prot)
{
- return (prot & ~(PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC | PROT_SEM)) == 0;
+ return (prot & ~(PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC
+ | PROT_SEM | PROT_FINAL)) == 0;
}
#define arch_validate_prot arch_validate_prot
#endif
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 872441e..292f988 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1101,6 +1101,14 @@ unsigned long do_mmap_pgoff(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
}
}

+ /*
+ * PROT_FINAL indicates that prot bits not requested by this
+ * mmap() call cannot be added later
+ */
+ if (prot & PROT_FINAL)
+ vm_flags &= ~(VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYWRITE | VM_MAYEXEC)
+ | (vm_flags << 4);
+
return mmap_region(file, addr, len, flags, vm_flags, pgoff);
}

diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index a409926..7a39f73 100644
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -301,6 +301,14 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(mprotect, unsigned long, start, size_t, len,
goto out;
}

+ /*
+ * PROT_FINAL indicates that prot bits removed by this
+ * mprotect() call cannot be added later
+ */
+ if (prot & PROT_FINAL)
+ newflags &= ~(VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYWRITE | VM_MAYEXEC)
+ | (newflags << 4);
+
error = security_file_mprotect(vma, reqprot, prot);
if (error)
goto out;
--
1.7.9.5


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