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authorDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>2014-09-02 22:53:44 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-09-05 12:02:48 -0700
commit60a3b2253c413cf601783b070507d7dd6620c954 (patch)
treed5682002b80cfeb75cb765df5ba097e7c889e9fe /lib/test_bpf.c
parent4a804c01635a43ed073893532c058fbaa1f5154e (diff)
net: bpf: make eBPF interpreter images read-only
With eBPF getting more extended and exposure to user space is on it's way, hardening the memory range the interpreter uses to steer its command flow seems appropriate. This patch moves the to be interpreted bytecode to read-only pages. In case we execute a corrupted BPF interpreter image for some reason e.g. caused by an attacker which got past a verifier stage, it would not only provide arbitrary read/write memory access but arbitrary function calls as well. After setting up the BPF interpreter image, its contents do not change until destruction time, thus we can setup the image on immutable made pages in order to mitigate modifications to that code. The idea is derived from commit 314beb9bcabf ("x86: bpf_jit_comp: secure bpf jit against spraying attacks"). This is possible because bpf_prog is not part of sk_filter anymore. After setup bpf_prog cannot be altered during its life-time. This prevents any modifications to the entire bpf_prog structure (incl. function/JIT image pointer). Every eBPF program (including classic BPF that are migrated) have to call bpf_prog_select_runtime() to select either interpreter or a JIT image as a last setup step, and they all are being freed via bpf_prog_free(), including non-JIT. Therefore, we can easily integrate this into the eBPF life-time, plus since we directly allocate a bpf_prog, we have no performance penalty. Tested with seccomp and test_bpf testsuite in JIT/non-JIT mode and manual inspection of kernel_page_tables. Brad Spengler proposed the same idea via Twitter during development of this patch. Joint work with Hannes Frederic Sowa. Suggested-by: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/test_bpf.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/test_bpf.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/test_bpf.c b/lib/test_bpf.c
index 8c66c6aace04..9a67456ba29a 100644
--- a/lib/test_bpf.c
+++ b/lib/test_bpf.c
@@ -1836,7 +1836,7 @@ static struct bpf_prog *generate_filter(int which, int *err)
break;
case INTERNAL:
- fp = kzalloc(bpf_prog_size(flen), GFP_KERNEL);
+ fp = bpf_prog_alloc(bpf_prog_size(flen), 0);
if (fp == NULL) {
pr_cont("UNEXPECTED_FAIL no memory left\n");
*err = -ENOMEM;