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[PATCH 00/23] Hardened usercopy whitelisting

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This series is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's PAX_USERCOPY code
in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on our understanding
of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are ours and
don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.

David Windsor did the bulk of the porting, refactoring, splitting,
testing, etc; I just did some extra tweaks, hunk moving, and small
extra patches.


This updates the slab allocator to add annotations (useroffset and
usersize) to define allowed usercopy regions. Currently, hardened
usercopy performs dynamic bounds checking on whole slab cache objects.
This is good, but still leaves a lot of kernel slab memory available to
be copied to/from userspace in the face of bugs. To further restrict
what memory is available for copying, this creates a way to whitelist
specific areas of a given slab cache object for copying to/from userspace,
allowing much finer granularity of access control. Slab caches that are
never exposed to userspace can declare no whitelist for their objects,
thereby keeping them unavailable to userspace via dynamic copy operations.
(Note, an implicit form of whitelisting is the use of constant sizes
in usercopy operations and get_user()/put_user(); these bypass hardened
usercopy checks since these sizes cannot change at runtime.)

Two good examples of how much more this protects are with task_struct
(a huge structure that only needs two fields exposed to userspace)
and mm_struct (another large and sensitive structure that only needs
auxv exposed). Other places for whitelists are mostly VFS name related,
and some areas of network caches.

To support the whitelist annotation, usercopy region offset and size
members are added to struct kmem_cache. The slab allocator receives a
new function that creates a new cache with a usercopy region defined
(kmem_cache_create_usercopy()), suitable for storing objects that get
copied to/from userspace. The default cache creation function
(kmem_cache_create()) remains unchanged and defaults to having no
whitelist region.

Additionally, a way to split trivially size-controllable kmallocs away
from the general-purpose kmalloc is added.

Finally, a Kconfig is created to control slab_nomerge, since it
would be nice to make this build-time controllable.

-Kees (and David)

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[PATCH 00/23] Hardened usercopy whitelisting Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:40 +0200
  [PATCH 13/23] ufs: define usercopy region in ufs_inode_cache slab cache Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:40 +0200
  [PATCH 22/23] usercopy: split user-controlled slabs to separate caches Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:40 +0200
    Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 22/23] usercopy: split user-controlled  slabs to separate caches Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> - 2017-06-20 06:30 +0200
    Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 22/23] usercopy: split user-controlled  slabs to separate caches Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> - 2017-06-20 06:50 +0200
      Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 22/23] usercopy: split user-controlled  slabs to separate caches Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-21 00:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 22/23] usercopy: split user-controlled slabs to separate  caches Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> - 2017-06-20 22:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 22/23] usercopy: split user-controlled slabs to separate caches Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-21 00:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 22/23] usercopy: split user-controlled slabs to separate  caches Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-06-27 09:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 22/23] usercopy: split user-controlled slabs to separate caches Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-28 00:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 22/23] usercopy: split user-controlled slabs to separate  caches Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-06-28 11:00 +0200
  [PATCH 08/23] ext2: define usercopy region in ext2_inode_cache slab cache Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:40 +0200
  [PATCH 15/23] net: define usercopy region in struct proto slab cache Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:40 +0200
  [PATCH 14/23] fork: define usercopy region in thread_stack, task_struct, mm_struct slab caches Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:40 +0200
  [PATCH 11/23] jfs: define usercopy region in jfs_ip slab cache Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:40 +0200
  [PATCH 20/23] usercopy: convert kmalloc caches to usercopy caches Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
  [PATCH 05/23] befs: define usercopy region in befs_inode_cache slab cache Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
  [PATCH 23/23] mm: Allow slab_nomerge to be set at build time Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
    Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 23/23] mm: Allow slab_nomerge to be  set at build time Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> - 2017-06-20 06:10 +0200
      Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 23/23] mm: Allow slab_nomerge to be set  at build time Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-21 01:00 +0200
    Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 23/23] mm: Allow slab_nomerge to be  set at build time Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> - 2017-06-20 06:30 +0200
      Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 23/23] mm: Allow slab_nomerge to be set  at build time Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-21 01:20 +0200
  [PATCH 19/23] xfs: define usercopy region in xfs_inode slab cache Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
  [PATCH 01/23] usercopy: Prepare for usercopy whitelisting Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
  [PATCH 03/23] vfs: define usercopy region in names_cache slab caches Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
  [PATCH 17/23] dcache: define usercopy region in dentry_cache slab cache Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
    Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 17/23] dcache: define usercopy region  in dentry_cache slab cache Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> - 2017-06-20 06:10 +0200
      Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 17/23] dcache: define usercopy region  in dentry_cache slab cache Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> - 2017-06-28 20:00 +0200
      Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 17/23] dcache: define usercopy region  in dentry_cache slab cache Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-28 20:00 +0200
  [PATCH 04/23] vfs: copy struct mount.mnt_id to userspace using put_user() Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
  [PATCH 06/23] cifs: define usercopy region in cifs_request slab cache Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
  [PATCH 21/23] usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
    Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 21/23] usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy  caches to size 0 Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> - 2017-06-20 06:10 +0200
      Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 21/23] usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy  caches to size 0 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-28 20:00 +0200
  [PATCH 18/23] scsi: define usercopy region in scsi_sense_cache slab cache Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
  [PATCH 02/23] usercopy: Enforce slab cache usercopy region boundaries Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-06-20 01:50 +0200
  Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 00/23] Hardened usercopy whitelisting Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> - 2017-06-20 21:50 +0200

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