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Daniel Micay 3c6539b4c1 x86/vdso: Move vDSO to mmap region 
The vDSO (and its initial randomization) was introduced in commit 2aae950b21
("x86_64: Add vDSO for x86-64 with gettimeofday/clock_gettime/getcpu"), but
had very low entropy. The entropy was improved in commit 394f56fe48
("x86_64, vdso: Fix the vdso address randomization algorithm"), but there
is still improvement to be made.

In principle there should not be executable code at a low entropy offset
from the stack, since the stack and executable code having separate
randomization is part of what makes ASLR stronger.

Remove the only executable code near the stack region and give the vDSO
the same randomized base as other mmap mappings including the linker
and other shared objects. This results in higher entropy being provided
and there's little to no advantage in separating this from the existing
executable code there. This is already how other architectures like
arm64 handle the vDSO.

As an side, while it's sensible for userspace to reserve the initial mmap
base as a region for executable code with a random gap for other mmap
allocations, along with providing randomization within that region, there
isn't much the kernel can do to help due to how dynamic linkers load the
shared objects.

This was extracted from the PaX RANDMMAP feature.

[kees: updated commit log with historical details and other tweaks]

Signed-off-by: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Closes: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/280
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240210091827.work.233-kees@kernel.org
History 2024-02-27 00:23:55 +01:00
arch x86/vdso: Move vDSO to mmap region 2024-02-27 00:23:55 +01:00
block blk-iocost: Fix an UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning 2024-02-08 10:11:39 -07:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto crypto: algif_hash - Remove bogus SGL free on zero-length error path 2024-02-02 18:08:12 +08:00
Documentation Merge branch 'x86/bugs' into x86/core, to pick up pending changes before dependent patches 2024-02-14 10:49:37 +01:00
drivers block-6.8-2024-02-10 2024-02-10 08:02:48 -08:00
fs 21 hotfixes. 12 are cc:stable and the remainder pertain to post-6.7 2024-02-10 15:28:07 -08:00
include Merge branch 'x86/bugs' into x86/core, to pick up pending changes before dependent patches 2024-02-14 10:49:37 +01:00
init Kconfig: Disable -Wstringop-overflow for GCC globally 2024-02-01 14:57:17 -08:00
io_uring io_uring/net: fix sr->len for IORING_OP_RECV with MSG_WAITALL and buffers 2024-02-01 06:42:36 -07:00
ipc shm: Slim down dependencies 2023-12-20 19:26:31 -05:00
kernel Merge branch 'x86/bugs' into x86/core, to pick up pending changes before dependent patches 2024-02-14 10:49:37 +01:00
lib linux_kselftest-kunit-fixes-6.8-rc3 2024-01-30 15:12:58 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm 21 hotfixes. 12 are cc:stable and the remainder pertain to post-6.7 2024-02-10 15:28:07 -08:00
net Merge branch 'x86/bugs' into x86/core, to pick up pending changes before dependent patches 2024-02-14 10:49:37 +01:00
rust Rust changes for v6.8 2024-01-11 13:05:41 -08:00
samples work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs 2024-02-09 15:57:48 -08:00
scripts Merge branch 'x86/bugs' into x86/core, to pick up pending changes before dependent patches 2024-02-14 10:49:37 +01:00
security lsm/stable-6.8 PR 20240131 2024-02-01 10:00:28 -08:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.8 2024-02-01 19:40:42 +01:00
tools Merge branch 'x86/bugs' into x86/core, to pick up pending changes before dependent patches 2024-02-14 10:49:37 +01:00
usr Kbuild updates for v6.8 2024-01-18 17:57:07 -08:00
virt Generic: 2024-01-17 13:03:37 -08:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.7-rc4's for_each macro list 2023-12-08 23:54:38 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig file for basic formatting 2023-12-28 16:22:47 +09:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore Add .editorconfig file for basic formatting 2023-12-28 16:22:47 +09:00
.mailmap MAINTAINERS: Leo Yan has moved 2024-02-07 21:20:36 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: supplement of zswap maintainers update 2024-01-25 23:52:21 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS 21 hotfixes. 12 are cc:stable and the remainder pertain to post-6.7 2024-02-10 15:28:07 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.8-rc4 2024-02-11 12:18:13 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.