alistair23-linux/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h
Andy Lutomirski 9fd67b4ed0 x86-64: Give vvars their own page
Move vvars out of the vsyscall page into their own page and mark
it NX.

Without this patch, an attacker who can force a daemon to call
some fixed address could wait until the time contains, say,
0xCD80, and then execute the current time.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b1460f81dc4463d66ea3f2b5ce240f58d48effec.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-06-05 21:30:32 +02:00

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/*
* vvar.h: Shared vDSO/kernel variable declarations
* Copyright (c) 2011 Andy Lutomirski
* Subject to the GNU General Public License, version 2
*
* A handful of variables are accessible (read-only) from userspace
* code in the vsyscall page and the vdso. They are declared here.
* Some other file must define them with DEFINE_VVAR.
*
* In normal kernel code, they are used like any other variable.
* In user code, they are accessed through the VVAR macro.
*
* These variables live in a page of kernel data that has an extra RO
* mapping for userspace. Each variable needs a unique offset within
* that page; specify that offset with the DECLARE_VVAR macro. (If
* you mess up, the linker will catch it.)
*/
/* Base address of vvars. This is not ABI. */
#define VVAR_ADDRESS (-10*1024*1024 - 4096)
#if defined(__VVAR_KERNEL_LDS)
/* The kernel linker script defines its own magic to put vvars in the
* right place.
*/
#define DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) \
EMIT_VVAR(name, offset)
#else
#define DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) \
static type const * const vvaraddr_ ## name = \
(void *)(VVAR_ADDRESS + (offset));
#define DEFINE_VVAR(type, name) \
type name \
__attribute__((section(".vvar_" #name), aligned(16)))
#define VVAR(name) (*vvaraddr_ ## name)
#endif
/* DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) */
DECLARE_VVAR(0, volatile unsigned long, jiffies)
DECLARE_VVAR(16, int, vgetcpu_mode)
DECLARE_VVAR(128, struct vsyscall_gtod_data, vsyscall_gtod_data)
#undef DECLARE_VVAR