[PATCH] vdso: randomize the i386 vDSO by moving it into a vma

Move the i386 VDSO down into a vma and thus randomize it.

Besides the security implications, this feature also helps debuggers, which
can COW a vma-backed VDSO just like a normal DSO and can thus do
single-stepping and other debugging features.

It's good for hypervisors (Xen, VMWare) too, which typically live in the same
high-mapped address space as the VDSO, hence whenever the VDSO is used, they
get lots of guest pagefaults and have to fix such guest accesses up - which
slows things down instead of speeding things up (the primary purpose of the
VDSO).

There's a new CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO (default=y) option, which provides support
for older glibcs that still rely on a prelinked high-mapped VDSO.  Newer
distributions (using glibc 2.3.3 or later) can turn this option off.  Turning
it off is also recommended for security reasons: attackers cannot use the
predictable high-mapped VDSO page as syscall trampoline anymore.

There is a new vdso=[0|1] boot option as well, and a runtime
/proc/sys/vm/vdso_enabled sysctl switch, that allows the VDSO to be turned
on/off.

(This version of the VDSO-randomization patch also has working ELF
coredumping, the previous patch crashed in the coredumping code.)

This code is a combined work of the exec-shield VDSO randomization
code and Gerd Hoffmann's hypervisor-centric VDSO patch. Rusty Russell
started this patch and i completed it.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 2]
[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 3]
[akpm@osdl.org: revernt MAXMEM change]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-i386/fixmap.h b/include/asm-i386/fixmap.h
index f7e068f4d2f9..a48cc3f7ccc6 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/fixmap.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/fixmap.h
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
  */
 enum fixed_addresses {
         FIX_HOLE,
-        FIX_VSYSCALL,
+        FIX_VDSO,
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
         FIX_APIC_BASE,  /* local (CPU) APIC) -- required for SMP or not */
 #endif
@@ -115,14 +115,6 @@ extern void __set_fixmap (enum fixed_addresses idx,
 #define __fix_to_virt(x)        (FIXADDR_TOP - ((x) << PAGE_SHIFT))
 #define __virt_to_fix(x)        ((FIXADDR_TOP - ((x)&PAGE_MASK)) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
 
-/*
- * This is the range that is readable by user mode, and things
- * acting like user mode such as get_user_pages.
- */
-#define FIXADDR_USER_START      (__fix_to_virt(FIX_VSYSCALL))
-#define FIXADDR_USER_END        (FIXADDR_USER_START + PAGE_SIZE)
-
-
 extern void __this_fixmap_does_not_exist(void);
 
 /*