// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 /* * This code fills the used part of the kernel stack with a poison value * before returning to userspace. It's part of the STACKLEAK feature * ported from grsecurity/PaX. * * Author: Alexander Popov * * STACKLEAK reduces the information which kernel stack leak bugs can * reveal and blocks some uninitialized stack variable attacks. */ #include asmlinkage void stackleak_erase(void) { /* It would be nice not to have 'kstack_ptr' and 'boundary' on stack */ unsigned long kstack_ptr = current->lowest_stack; unsigned long boundary = (unsigned long)end_of_stack(current); unsigned int poison_count = 0; const unsigned int depth = STACKLEAK_SEARCH_DEPTH / sizeof(unsigned long); /* Check that 'lowest_stack' value is sane */ if (unlikely(kstack_ptr - boundary >= THREAD_SIZE)) kstack_ptr = boundary; /* Search for the poison value in the kernel stack */ while (kstack_ptr > boundary && poison_count <= depth) { if (*(unsigned long *)kstack_ptr == STACKLEAK_POISON) poison_count++; else poison_count = 0; kstack_ptr -= sizeof(unsigned long); } /* * One 'long int' at the bottom of the thread stack is reserved and * should not be poisoned (see CONFIG_SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK=y). */ if (kstack_ptr == boundary) kstack_ptr += sizeof(unsigned long); /* * Now write the poison value to the kernel stack. Start from * 'kstack_ptr' and move up till the new 'boundary'. We assume that * the stack pointer doesn't change when we write poison. */ if (on_thread_stack()) boundary = current_stack_pointer; else boundary = current_top_of_stack(); while (kstack_ptr < boundary) { *(unsigned long *)kstack_ptr = STACKLEAK_POISON; kstack_ptr += sizeof(unsigned long); } /* Reset the 'lowest_stack' value for the next syscall */ current->lowest_stack = current_top_of_stack() - THREAD_SIZE/64; }