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Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings

From Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings
Date 2015-10-05 21:20 +0200
Message-ID <qgjsJ-821-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <qff7Q-5Cf-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <qftaN-nH-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
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On 10/03/2015 07:27 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
> 
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
>> index 30564e2..f8b1573 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
>> @@ -1150,6 +1150,8 @@ void mark_rodata_ro(void)
>>  	free_init_pages("unused kernel",
>>  			(unsigned long) __va(__pa_symbol(rodata_end)),
>>  			(unsigned long) __va(__pa_symbol(_sdata)));
>> +
>> +	debug_checkwx();
> 
> Any reason to not do this on NX capable 32-bit kernels as well?

Done in v3.  However, I do see lots of W+X mappings there.

[    1.012796] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c:225 note_page+0x65d/0x840()
[    1.012803] x86/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address f4a00000/0xf4a00000
[    1.012805] Modules linked in:
[    1.012833] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.3.0-rc4+ #2
[    1.012837] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.7.5-20140709_153950- 04/01/2014
[    1.012844]  c0d32967 173b7da7 00000000 f7105e7c c0713490 f7105ebc f7105eac c045d077
[    1.012848]  c0c47ef8 f7105edc 00000001 c0c4de42 000000e1 c04551fd c04551fd f7105f3c
[    1.012851]  00000002 00000000 f7105ec8 c045d0ee 00000009 f7105ebc c0c47ef8 f7105edc
[    1.012855] Call Trace:
[    1.012868]  [<c0713490>] dump_stack+0x41/0x61
[    1.012871]  [<c045d077>] warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xc0
[    1.012873]  [<c04551fd>] ? note_page+0x65d/0x840
[    1.012875]  [<c04551fd>] ? note_page+0x65d/0x840
[    1.012877]  [<c045d0ee>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x3e/0x60
[    1.012878]  [<c04551fd>] note_page+0x65d/0x840
[    1.012880]  [<c04555b6>] ptdump_walk_pgd_level_core+0x1d6/0x2d0
[    1.012883]  [<c04557a6>] ptdump_walk_pgd_level_checkwx+0x16/0x20
[    1.012886]  [<c044ba15>] mark_rodata_ro+0x135/0x160
[    1.012898]  [<c0a9b33f>] kernel_init+0x1f/0xe0
[    1.012906]  [<c0484b41>] ? schedule_tail+0x11/0x50
[    1.012909]  [<c0aa0bc1>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x21/0x30
[    1.012910]  [<c0a9b320>] ? rest_init+0x70/0x70
[    1.012912] ---[ end trace 40a4f3d5e8fb70ac ]---
[    1.012954] x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: FAILED, 6556 W+X pages found.

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[PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> - 2015-10-02 22:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2015-10-02 22:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-10-03 13:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> - 2015-10-05 21:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-10-06 09:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> - 2015-10-06 17:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-10-12 13:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2015-10-12 14:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-10-12 14:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2015-10-12 15:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-10-12 16:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2015-10-12 16:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2015-10-12 17:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2015-10-12 18:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2015-10-12 18:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-10-14 17:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-10-14 17:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2015-10-15 12:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-10-15 12:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> - 2015-10-16 03:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-10-14 17:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2015-10-14 23:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2015-10-12 17:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-10-14 17:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2] x86/mm: warn on W+x mappings Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2015-10-14 18:50 +0200

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