Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86: SROP mitigation: implement signal canaries

From: Erik Bosman
Date: Thu May 15 2014 - 18:34:51 EST


On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 02:31:40PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Erik Bosman <erik@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c
> > index 2206757..1a9285a 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c
> > @@ -212,9 +212,18 @@ asmlinkage long sys32_sigreturn(void)
> > struct sigframe_ia32 __user *frame = (struct sigframe_ia32 __user *)(regs->sp-8);
> > sigset_t set;
> > unsigned int ax;
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_SIGNAL_CANARY
> > + u32 canary;
> > +#endif
>
> Don't you completely break the ABI here? I'm sure there are programs out
> there who hard code the offset into the FP state.
>
> I think you either need to put it at the total end or somewhere
> currently unused
>

Hrmz.. FP state is aligned on a 64 byte boundary, the signal frame (separately)
on a 16 byte-sizeof(long) boundary. But it looks like that for 32 and 64 bit
rt_sigreturn this means no padding :-/

It looks like I'll have to put the canary beyond the fp state. :-(
I had hoped to avoid pointer arithmetic. :-/

Erik

> Besides that I would remove the CONFIG_* once it works and just do it
> unconditionally.
>
> -Andi
>
>
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