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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-02-14 08:48:23 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2008-05-26 16:15:31 +0200 |
| commit | e00320875d0cc5f8099a7227b2f25fbb3231268d (patch) | |
| tree | 2a2a35649bcb07a071efa90f967eeb3702b8187a /arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | |
| parent | 4c7f8900f1d8a0e464e7092f132a7e93f7c20f2f (diff) | |
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x86: fix stackprotector canary updates during context switches
fix a bug noticed and fixed by pageexec@freemail.hu.
if built with -fstack-protector-all then we'll have canary checks built
into the __switch_to() function. That does not work well with the
canary-switching code there: while we already use the %rsp of the
new task, we still call __switch_to() whith the previous task's canary
value in the PDA, hence the __switch_to() ssp prologue instructions
will store the previous canary. Then we update the PDA and upon return
from __switch_to() the canary check triggers and we panic.
so update the canary after we have called __switch_to(), where we are
at the same stackframe level as the last stackframe of the next
(and now freshly current) task.
Note: this means that we call __switch_to() [and its sub-functions]
still with the old canary, but that is not a problem, both the previous
and the next task has a high-quality canary. The only (mostly academic)
disadvantage is that the canary of one task may leak onto the stack of
another task, increasing the risk of information leaks, were an attacker
able to read the stack of specific tasks (but not that of others).
To solve this we'll have to reorganize the way we switch tasks, and move
the PDA setting into the switch_to() assembly code. That will happen in
another patch.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c index e2319f39988b..d8640388039e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c @@ -640,7 +640,6 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p) write_pda(kernelstack, (unsigned long)task_stack_page(next_p) + THREAD_SIZE - PDA_STACKOFFSET); #ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR - write_pda(stack_canary, next_p->stack_canary); /* * Build time only check to make sure the stack_canary is at * offset 40 in the pda; this is a gcc ABI requirement |
