usercopy: Prepare for usercopy whitelisting

This patch prepares the slab allocator to handle caches having annotations
(useroffset and usersize) defining usercopy regions.

This patch is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's PAX_USERCOPY
whitelisting code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on
my understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original
code are mine and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.

Currently, hardened usercopy performs dynamic bounds checking on slab
cache objects. This is good, but still leaves a lot of kernel memory
available to be copied to/from userspace in the face of bugs. To further
restrict what memory is available for copying, this creates a way to
whitelist specific areas of a given slab cache object for copying to/from
userspace, allowing much finer granularity of access control. Slab caches
that are never exposed to userspace can declare no whitelist for their
objects, thereby keeping them unavailable to userspace via dynamic copy
operations. (Note, an implicit form of whitelisting is the use of constant
sizes in usercopy operations and get_user()/put_user(); these bypass
hardened usercopy checks since these sizes cannot change at runtime.)

To support this whitelist annotation, usercopy region offset and size
members are added to struct kmem_cache. The slab allocator receives a
new function, kmem_cache_create_usercopy(), that creates a new cache
with a usercopy region defined, suitable for declaring spans of fields
within the objects that get copied to/from userspace.

In this patch, the default kmem_cache_create() marks the entire allocation
as whitelisted, leaving it semantically unchanged. Once all fine-grained
whitelists have been added (in subsequent patches), this will be changed
to a usersize of 0, making caches created with kmem_cache_create() not
copyable to/from userspace.

After the entire usercopy whitelist series is applied, less than 15%
of the slab cache memory remains exposed to potential usercopy bugs
after a fresh boot:

Total Slab Memory:           48074720
Usercopyable Memory:          6367532  13.2%
         task_struct                    0.2%         4480/1630720
         RAW                            0.3%            300/96000
         RAWv6                          2.1%           1408/64768
         ext4_inode_cache               3.0%       269760/8740224
         dentry                        11.1%       585984/5273856
         mm_struct                     29.1%         54912/188448
         kmalloc-8                    100.0%          24576/24576
         kmalloc-16                   100.0%          28672/28672
         kmalloc-32                   100.0%          81920/81920
         kmalloc-192                  100.0%          96768/96768
         kmalloc-128                  100.0%        143360/143360
         names_cache                  100.0%        163840/163840
         kmalloc-64                   100.0%        167936/167936
         kmalloc-256                  100.0%        339968/339968
         kmalloc-512                  100.0%        350720/350720
         kmalloc-96                   100.0%        455616/455616
         kmalloc-8192                 100.0%        655360/655360
         kmalloc-1024                 100.0%        812032/812032
         kmalloc-4096                 100.0%        819200/819200
         kmalloc-2048                 100.0%      1310720/1310720

After some kernel build workloads, the percentage (mainly driven by
dentry and inode caches expanding) drops under 10%:

Total Slab Memory:           95516184
Usercopyable Memory:          8497452   8.8%
         task_struct                    0.2%         4000/1456000
         RAW                            0.3%            300/96000
         RAWv6                          2.1%           1408/64768
         ext4_inode_cache               3.0%     1217280/39439872
         dentry                        11.1%     1623200/14608800
         mm_struct                     29.1%         73216/251264
         kmalloc-8                    100.0%          24576/24576
         kmalloc-16                   100.0%          28672/28672
         kmalloc-32                   100.0%          94208/94208
         kmalloc-192                  100.0%          96768/96768
         kmalloc-128                  100.0%        143360/143360
         names_cache                  100.0%        163840/163840
         kmalloc-64                   100.0%        245760/245760
         kmalloc-256                  100.0%        339968/339968
         kmalloc-512                  100.0%        350720/350720
         kmalloc-96                   100.0%        563520/563520
         kmalloc-8192                 100.0%        655360/655360
         kmalloc-1024                 100.0%        794624/794624
         kmalloc-4096                 100.0%        819200/819200
         kmalloc-2048                 100.0%      1257472/1257472

Signed-off-by: David Windsor <dave@nullcore.net>
[kees: adjust commit log, split out a few extra kmalloc hunks]
[kees: add field names to function declarations]
[kees: convert BUGs to WARNs and fail closed]
[kees: add attack surface reduction analysis to commit log]
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 2dbeccdcb76b..8bf14d9762ec 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -135,9 +135,13 @@ struct mem_cgroup;
 void __init kmem_cache_init(void);
 bool slab_is_available(void);
 
-struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *, size_t, size_t,
-			slab_flags_t,
-			void (*)(void *));
+struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size,
+			size_t align, slab_flags_t flags,
+			void (*ctor)(void *));
+struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create_usercopy(const char *name,
+			size_t size, size_t align, slab_flags_t flags,
+			size_t useroffset, size_t usersize,
+			void (*ctor)(void *));
 void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *);
 int kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *);
 
@@ -153,9 +157,20 @@ void memcg_destroy_kmem_caches(struct mem_cgroup *);
  * f.e. add ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp to the struct declaration
  * then the objects will be properly aligned in SMP configurations.
  */
-#define KMEM_CACHE(__struct, __flags) kmem_cache_create(#__struct,\
-		sizeof(struct __struct), __alignof__(struct __struct),\
-		(__flags), NULL)
+#define KMEM_CACHE(__struct, __flags)					\
+		kmem_cache_create(#__struct, sizeof(struct __struct),	\
+			__alignof__(struct __struct), (__flags), NULL)
+
+/*
+ * To whitelist a single field for copying to/from usercopy, use this
+ * macro instead for KMEM_CACHE() above.
+ */
+#define KMEM_CACHE_USERCOPY(__struct, __flags, __field)			\
+		kmem_cache_create_usercopy(#__struct,			\
+			sizeof(struct __struct),			\
+			__alignof__(struct __struct), (__flags),	\
+			offsetof(struct __struct, __field),		\
+			sizeof_field(struct __struct, __field), NULL)
 
 /*
  * Common kmalloc functions provided by all allocators