From 7705dc8557973d8ad8f10840f61d8ec805695e9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:13:51 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] x86/vmlinux: Use INT3 instead of NOP for linker fill bytes Instead of using 0x90 (NOP) to fill bytes between functions, which makes it easier to sloppily target functions in function pointer overwrite attacks, fill with 0xCC (INT3) to force a trap. Also drop the space between "=" and the value to better match the binutils documentation https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Output-Section-Fill.html#Output-Section-Fill Example "objdump -d" before: ... ffffffff810001e0 : ffffffff810001e0: 48 8b 25 e1 b1 51 01 mov 0x151b1e1(%rip),%rsp # ffffffff8251b3c8 ffffffff810001e7: e9 d5 fe ff ff jmpq ffffffff810000c1 ffffffff810001ec: 90 nop ffffffff810001ed: 90 nop ffffffff810001ee: 90 nop ffffffff810001ef: 90 nop ffffffff810001f0 <__startup_64>: ... After: ... ffffffff810001e0 : ffffffff810001e0: 48 8b 25 41 79 53 01 mov 0x1537941(%rip),%rsp # ffffffff82537b28 ffffffff810001e7: e9 d5 fe ff ff jmpq ffffffff810000c1 ffffffff810001ec: cc int3 ffffffff810001ed: cc int3 ffffffff810001ee: cc int3 ffffffff810001ef: cc int3 ffffffff810001f0 <__startup_64>: ... Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Rick Edgecombe Cc: Ross Zwisler Cc: Segher Boessenkool Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Thomas Lendacky Cc: Will Deacon Cc: x86-ml Cc: Yoshinori Sato Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-30-keescook@chromium.org --- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index b06d6e1188de..3a1a819da137 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ SECTIONS *(.text.__x86.indirect_thunk) __indirect_thunk_end = .; #endif - } :text = 0x9090 + } :text =0xcccc /* End of text section, which should occupy whole number of pages */ _etext = .;