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SubjectRe: + signal-always-clear-sa_restorer-on-execve.patch added to -mm tree
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Hi,

A note for backporters: you'll likely want to change
__ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER to SA_RESTORER, since the former was recently
introduced. If not, this will apply but not actually do any good.

-Kees

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:22 PM, <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> The patch titled
> Subject: signal: always clear sa_restorer on execve
> has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
> signal-always-clear-sa_restorer-on-execve.patch
>
> Before you just go and hit "reply", please:
> a) Consider who else should be cc'ed
> b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well
> c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a
> reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's
>
> *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***
>
> The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated
> there every 3-4 working days
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Subject: signal: always clear sa_restorer on execve
>
> When the new signal handlers are set up, the location of sa_restorer is
> not cleared, leaking a parent process's address space location to
> children. This allows for a potential bypass of the parent's ASLR by
> examining the sa_restorer value returned when calling sigaction().
>
> Based on what should be considered "secret" about addresses, it only
> matters across the exec not the fork (since the VMAs haven't changed until
> the exec). But since exec sets SIG_DFL and keeps sa_restorer, this is
> where it should be fixed.
>
> Given the few uses of sa_restorer, a "set" function was not written since
> this would be the only use. Instead, we use __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER, as
> already done in other places.
>
> Example of the leak before applying this patch:
>
> $ cat /proc/$$/maps
> ...
> 7fb9f3083000-7fb9f3238000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 404469 .../libc-2.15.so
> ...
> $ ./leak
> ...
> 7f278bc74000-7f278be29000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 404469 .../libc-2.15.so
> ...
> 1 0 (nil) 0x7fb9f30b94a0
> 2 4000000 (nil) 0x7f278bcaa4a0
> 3 4000000 (nil) 0x7f278bcaa4a0
> 4 0 (nil) 0x7fb9f30b94a0
> ...
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Reported-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
> Cc: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
> Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
> Cc: Julien Tinnes <jln@google.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
>
> kernel/signal.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff -puN kernel/signal.c~signal-always-clear-sa_restorer-on-execve kernel/signal.c
> --- a/kernel/signal.c~signal-always-clear-sa_restorer-on-execve
> +++ a/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -485,6 +485,9 @@ flush_signal_handlers(struct task_struct
> if (force_default || ka->sa.sa_handler != SIG_IGN)
> ka->sa.sa_handler = SIG_DFL;
> ka->sa.sa_flags = 0;
> +#ifdef __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER
> + ka->sa.sa_restorer = NULL;
> +#endif
> sigemptyset(&ka->sa.sa_mask);
> ka++;
> }
> _
>
> Patches currently in -mm which might be from keescook@chromium.org are
>
> linux-next.patch
> binfmt_elfc-use-get_random_int-to-fix-entropy-depleting.patch
> signal-always-clear-sa_restorer-on-execve.patch
>



--
Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security


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