x86/vsyscall: Add a new vsyscall=xonly mode

With vsyscall emulation on, a readable vsyscall page is still exposed that
contains syscall instructions that validly implement the vsyscalls.

This is required because certain dynamic binary instrumentation tools
attempt to read the call targets of call instructions in the instrumented
code.  If the instrumented code uses vsyscalls, then the vsyscall page needs
to contain readable code.

Unfortunately, leaving readable memory at a deterministic address can be
used to help various ASLR bypasses, so some hardening value can be gained
by disallowing vsyscall reads.

Given how rarely the vsyscall page needs to be readable, add a mechanism to
make the vsyscall page be execute only.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d17655777c21bc09a7af1bbcf74e6f2b69a51152.1561610354.git.luto@kernel.org

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c
index d9d81ad7a400..fedd7628f3a6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c
@@ -42,9 +42,11 @@
 #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
 #include "vsyscall_trace.h"
 
-static enum { EMULATE, NONE } vsyscall_mode =
+static enum { EMULATE, XONLY, NONE } vsyscall_mode =
 #ifdef CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NONE
 	NONE;
+#elif defined(CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALL_XONLY)
+	XONLY;
 #else
 	EMULATE;
 #endif
@@ -54,6 +56,8 @@ static int __init vsyscall_setup(char *str)
 	if (str) {
 		if (!strcmp("emulate", str))
 			vsyscall_mode = EMULATE;
+		else if (!strcmp("xonly", str))
+			vsyscall_mode = XONLY;
 		else if (!strcmp("none", str))
 			vsyscall_mode = NONE;
 		else
@@ -357,12 +361,20 @@ void __init map_vsyscall(void)
 	extern char __vsyscall_page;
 	unsigned long physaddr_vsyscall = __pa_symbol(&__vsyscall_page);
 
-	if (vsyscall_mode != NONE) {
+	/*
+	 * For full emulation, the page needs to exist for real.  In
+	 * execute-only mode, there is no PTE at all backing the vsyscall
+	 * page.
+	 */
+	if (vsyscall_mode == EMULATE) {
 		__set_fixmap(VSYSCALL_PAGE, physaddr_vsyscall,
 			     PAGE_KERNEL_VVAR);
 		set_vsyscall_pgtable_user_bits(swapper_pg_dir);
 	}
 
+	if (vsyscall_mode == XONLY)
+		gate_vma.vm_flags = VM_EXEC;
+
 	BUILD_BUG_ON((unsigned long)__fix_to_virt(VSYSCALL_PAGE) !=
 		     (unsigned long)VSYSCALL_ADDR);
 }