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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2006-06-27 05:53:50 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-27 20:32:38 -0400
commite6e5494cb23d1933735ee47cc674ffe1c4afed6f (patch)
treec8945bb3ae5bec38693d801fb589d22d48d6f8eb /kernel
parentd5fb34261dcd32c9cb3b28121fdc46308db513a1 (diff)
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index f1a4eb1a655e..f54afed8426f 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -928,6 +928,18 @@ static ctl_table vm_table[] = {
928 .strategy = &sysctl_jiffies, 928 .strategy = &sysctl_jiffies,
929 }, 929 },
930#endif 930#endif
931#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
932 {
933 .ctl_name = VM_VDSO_ENABLED,
934 .procname = "vdso_enabled",
935 .data = &vdso_enabled,
936 .maxlen = sizeof(vdso_enabled),
937 .mode = 0644,
938 .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec,
939 .strategy = &sysctl_intvec,
940 .extra1 = &zero,
941 },
942#endif
931 { .ctl_name = 0 } 943 { .ctl_name = 0 }
932}; 944};
933 945