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authorGerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>2007-02-05 15:18:17 -0500
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2007-02-05 15:18:17 -0500
commitc1821c2e9711adc3cd298a16b7237c92a2cee78d (patch)
tree9155b089db35a37d95863125ea4c5f918bd7801b /include/asm-s390/ptrace.h
parent86aa9fc2456d8a662f299a70bdb70987209170f0 (diff)
[S390] noexec protection
This provides a noexec protection on s390 hardware. Our hardware does not have any bits left in the pte for a hw noexec bit, so this is a different approach using shadow page tables and a special addressing mode that allows separate address spaces for code and data. As a special feature of our "secondary-space" addressing mode, separate page tables can be specified for the translation of data addresses (storage operands) and instruction addresses. The shadow page table is used for the instruction addresses and the standard page table for the data addresses. The shadow page table is linked to the standard page table by a pointer in page->lru.next of the struct page corresponding to the page that contains the standard page table (since page->private is not really private with the pte_lock and the page table pages are not in the LRU list). Depending on the software bits of a pte, it is either inserted into both page tables or just into the standard (data) page table. Pages of a vma that does not have the VM_EXEC bit set get mapped only in the data address space. Any try to execute code on such a page will cause a page translation exception. The standard reaction to this is a SIGSEGV with two exceptions: the two system call opcodes 0x0a77 (sys_sigreturn) and 0x0aad (sys_rt_sigreturn) are allowed. They are stored by the kernel to the signal stack frame. Unfortunately, the signal return mechanism cannot be modified to use an SA_RESTORER because the exception unwinding code depends on the system call opcode stored behind the signal stack frame. This feature requires that user space is executed in secondary-space mode and the kernel in home-space mode, which means that the addressing modes need to be switched and that the noexec protection only works for user space. After switching the addressing modes, we cannot use the mvcp/mvcs instructions anymore to copy between kernel and user space. A new mvcos instruction has been added to the z9 EC/BC hardware which allows to copy between arbitrary address spaces, but on older hardware the page tables need to be walked manually. Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-s390/ptrace.h')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-s390/ptrace.h b/include/asm-s390/ptrace.h
index 7b768c5c68a8..fa6ca87080e8 100644
--- a/include/asm-s390/ptrace.h
+++ b/include/asm-s390/ptrace.h
@@ -266,17 +266,12 @@ typedef struct
266#define PSW_ASC_SECONDARY 0x0000800000000000UL 266#define PSW_ASC_SECONDARY 0x0000800000000000UL
267#define PSW_ASC_HOME 0x0000C00000000000UL 267#define PSW_ASC_HOME 0x0000C00000000000UL
268 268
269#define PSW_USER32_BITS (PSW_BASE32_BITS | PSW_MASK_DAT | PSW_ASC_HOME | \ 269extern long psw_user32_bits;
270 PSW_MASK_IO | PSW_MASK_EXT | PSW_MASK_MCHECK | \
271 PSW_MASK_PSTATE | PSW_DEFAULT_KEY)
272 270
273#endif /* __s390x__ */ 271#endif /* __s390x__ */
274 272
275#define PSW_KERNEL_BITS (PSW_BASE_BITS | PSW_MASK_DAT | PSW_ASC_PRIMARY | \ 273extern long psw_kernel_bits;
276 PSW_MASK_MCHECK | PSW_DEFAULT_KEY) 274extern long psw_user_bits;
277#define PSW_USER_BITS (PSW_BASE_BITS | PSW_MASK_DAT | PSW_ASC_HOME | \
278 PSW_MASK_IO | PSW_MASK_EXT | PSW_MASK_MCHECK | \
279 PSW_MASK_PSTATE | PSW_DEFAULT_KEY)
280 275
281/* This macro merges a NEW PSW mask specified by the user into 276/* This macro merges a NEW PSW mask specified by the user into
282 the currently active PSW mask CURRENT, modifying only those 277 the currently active PSW mask CURRENT, modifying only those