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x86-64: Emulate legacy vsyscalls

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There's a fair amount of code in the vsyscall page.  It contains
a syscall instruction (in the gettimeofday fallback) and who
knows what will happen if an exploit jumps into the middle of
some other code.

Reduce the risk by replacing the vsyscalls with short magic
incantations that cause the kernel to emulate the real
vsyscalls. These incantations are useless if entered in the
middle.

This causes vsyscalls to be a little more expensive than real
syscalls.  Fortunately sensible programs don't use them.
The only exception is time() which is still called by glibc
through the vsyscall - but calling time() millions of times
per second is not sensible. glibc has this fixed in the
development tree.

This patch is not perfect: the vread_tsc and vread_hpet
functions are still at a fixed address.  Fixing that might
involve making alternative patching work in the vDSO.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e64e1b3c64858820d12c48fa739efbd1485e79d5.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu
[ Removed the CONFIG option - it's simpler to just do it unconditionally. Tidied up the code as well. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Andy Lutomirski
2011-06-05 13:50:24 -04:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 5dfcea629a
commit 5cec93c216
9 changed files with 203 additions and 154 deletions
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arch/x86/include/asm/traps.h
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@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
#ifndef _ASM_X86_TRAPS_H
#define _ASM_X86_TRAPS_H
#include <linux/kprobes.h>
#include <asm/debugreg.h>
#include <asm/siginfo.h> /* TRAP_TRACE, ... */
@@ -38,6 +40,7 @@ asmlinkage void alignment_check(void);
asmlinkage void machine_check(void);
#endif /* CONFIG_X86_MCE */
asmlinkage void simd_coprocessor_error(void);
asmlinkage void emulate_vsyscall(void);
dotraplinkage void do_divide_error(struct pt_regs *, long);
dotraplinkage void do_debug(struct pt_regs *, long);
@@ -64,6 +67,7 @@ dotraplinkage void do_alignment_check(struct pt_regs *, long);
dotraplinkage void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *, long);
#endif
dotraplinkage void do_simd_coprocessor_error(struct pt_regs *, long);
dotraplinkage void do_emulate_vsyscall(struct pt_regs *, long);
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
dotraplinkage void do_iret_error(struct pt_regs *, long);
#endif