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authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>2009-02-21 20:50:05 -0500
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-02-22 23:53:21 -0500
commita5adc91a4b44b5d1706b9d906cc14fe4f312afe9 (patch)
treef0f5053b44b53fea4065bd05aeb9f0a53090d9dd /arch/powerpc/mm
parent912f9ee21c836081e3c96dfe61025841ebeb95da (diff)
powerpc: Ensure random space between stack and mmaps
get_random_int() returns the same value within a 1 jiffy interval. This means that the mmap and stack regions will almost always end up the same distance apart, making a relative offset based attack possible. To fix this, shift the randomness we use for the mmap region by 1 bit. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/mm')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/mmap.c14
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmap.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmap.c
index f7376dbb653b..75dc7faaf917 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmap.c
@@ -46,6 +46,14 @@ static inline int mmap_is_legacy(void)
46 return sysctl_legacy_va_layout; 46 return sysctl_legacy_va_layout;
47} 47}
48 48
49/*
50 * Since get_random_int() returns the same value within a 1 jiffy window,
51 * we will almost always get the same randomisation for the stack and mmap
52 * region. This will mean the relative distance between stack and mmap will
53 * be the same.
54 *
55 * To avoid this we can shift the randomness by 1 bit.
56 */
49static unsigned long mmap_rnd(void) 57static unsigned long mmap_rnd(void)
50{ 58{
51 unsigned long rnd = 0; 59 unsigned long rnd = 0;
@@ -53,11 +61,11 @@ static unsigned long mmap_rnd(void)
53 if (current->flags & PF_RANDOMIZE) { 61 if (current->flags & PF_RANDOMIZE) {
54 /* 8MB for 32bit, 1GB for 64bit */ 62 /* 8MB for 32bit, 1GB for 64bit */
55 if (is_32bit_task()) 63 if (is_32bit_task())
56 rnd = (long)(get_random_int() % (1<<(23-PAGE_SHIFT))); 64 rnd = (long)(get_random_int() % (1<<(22-PAGE_SHIFT)));
57 else 65 else
58 rnd = (long)(get_random_int() % (1<<(30-PAGE_SHIFT))); 66 rnd = (long)(get_random_int() % (1<<(29-PAGE_SHIFT)));
59 } 67 }
60 return rnd << PAGE_SHIFT; 68 return (rnd << PAGE_SHIFT) * 2;
61} 69}
62 70
63static inline unsigned long mmap_base(void) 71static inline unsigned long mmap_base(void)