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Message-ID: <20160217052010.GA49233@davidb.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 22:20:10 -0700
From: David Brown <david.brown@...aro.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: vdso: Mark vDSO code as read-only
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 01:52:33PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:36 PM, David Brown <david.brown@...aro.org> wrote:
>> Although the arm vDSO is cleanly separated by code/data with the code
>> being read-only in userspace mappings, the code page is still writable
>> from the kernel. There have been exploits (such as
>> http://itszn.com/blog/?p=21) that take advantage of this on x86 to go
>> from a bad kernel write to full root.
>>
>> Prevent this specific exploit on arm by putting the vDSO code page in
>> post-init read-only memory as well.
>
>Is the vdso dynamically built at init time like on x86, or can this
>just use .rodata directly?
On ARM, it is patched during init. Arm64's is just plain read-only.
David
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