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MIPS: Prevent READ_IMPLIES_EXEC propagation
authorTiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Tue, 7 Jul 2020 09:39:01 +0000 (17:39 +0800)
committerThomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:18:19 +0000 (13:18 +0200)
commitf53a5ad7cb051201a8ec04aca942b6bda00252ae
treeb1f7dd6c0af04c3d6aef0cc0031f625b99a9d560
parentbdccca3c44e8375ed24ca02b34e811ae113e4944
MIPS: Prevent READ_IMPLIES_EXEC propagation

In the MIPS architecture, we should clear the security-relevant
flag READ_IMPLIES_EXEC in the function SET_PERSONALITY2() of the
file arch/mips/include/asm/elf.h.

Otherwise, with this flag set, PROT_READ implies PROT_EXEC for
mmap to make memory executable that is not safe, because this
condition allows an attacker to simply jump to and execute bytes
that are considered to be just data [1].

In mm/mmap.c:
unsigned long do_mmap(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
unsigned long len, unsigned long prot,
unsigned long flags, vm_flags_t vm_flags,
unsigned long pgoff, unsigned long *populate,
struct list_head *uf)
{
[...]
if ((prot & PROT_READ) && (current->personality & READ_IMPLIES_EXEC))
if (!(file && path_noexec(&file->f_path)))
prot |= PROT_EXEC;
[...]
}

By the way, x86 and ARM64 have done the similar thing.

After commit 856c03cca6fb ("x86_64: move kernel"), in the file
arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c:
void set_personality_64bit(void)
{
[...]
current->personality &= ~READ_IMPLIES_EXEC;
}

After commit 16adb5981ac9 ("arm64: Preventing READ_IMPLIES_EXEC
propagation"), in the file arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h:
#define SET_PERSONALITY(ex) \
({ \
clear_thread_flag(TIF_32BIT); \
current->personality &= ~READ_IMPLIES_EXEC; \
})

[1] https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/cert/2014/02/feeling-insecure-blame-your-parent.html

Reported-by: Juxin Gao <gaojuxin@loongson.cn>
Co-developed-by: Juxin Gao <gaojuxin@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Juxin Gao <gaojuxin@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
arch/mips/include/asm/elf.h