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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2021-10-21 15:55:05 -0700
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2021-10-26 10:15:12 +0200
commit1bdda24c4af64cd2d65dec5192ab624c5fee7ca0 (patch)
tree9e96250b0947c570a206842a035ad9f79ad0e45e /kernel/signal.c
parent582b01b6ab2714a0a4d554cea7f0d4efeaa2154d (diff)
downloadlinux-1bdda24c4af64cd2d65dec5192ab624c5fee7ca0.tar.gz
signal: Add an optional check for altstack size
New x86 FPU features will be very large, requiring ~10k of stack in
signal handlers.  These new features require a new approach called
"dynamic features".

The kernel currently tries to ensure that altstacks are reasonably
sized. Right now, on x86, sys_sigaltstack() requires a size of >=2k.
However, that 2k is a constant. Simply raising that 2k requirement
to >10k for the new features would break existing apps which have a
compiled-in size of 2k.

Instead of universally enforcing a larger stack, prohibit a process from
using dynamic features without properly-sized altstacks. This must be
enforced in two places:

 * A dynamic feature can not be enabled without an large-enough altstack
   for each process thread.
 * Once a dynamic feature is enabled, any request to install a too-small
   altstack will be rejected

The dynamic feature enabling code must examine each thread in a
process to ensure that the altstacks are large enough. Add a new lock
(sigaltstack_lock()) to ensure that threads can not race and change
their altstack after being examined.

Add the infrastructure in form of a config option and provide empty
stubs for architectures which do not need dynamic altstack size checks.

This implementation will be fleshed out for x86 in a future patch called

  x86/arch_prctl: Add controls for dynamic XSTATE components

  [dhansen: commit message. ]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211021225527.10184-2-chang.seok.bae@intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/signal.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/signal.c35
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 952741f6d0f9..9278f5291ed6 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -4151,11 +4151,29 @@ int do_sigaction(int sig, struct k_sigaction *act, struct k_sigaction *oact)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_SIGFRAME
+static inline void sigaltstack_lock(void)
+	__acquires(&current->sighand->siglock)
+{
+	spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
+}
+
+static inline void sigaltstack_unlock(void)
+	__releases(&current->sighand->siglock)
+{
+	spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
+}
+#else
+static inline void sigaltstack_lock(void) { }
+static inline void sigaltstack_unlock(void) { }
+#endif
+
 static int
 do_sigaltstack (const stack_t *ss, stack_t *oss, unsigned long sp,
 		size_t min_ss_size)
 {
 	struct task_struct *t = current;
+	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (oss) {
 		memset(oss, 0, sizeof(stack_t));
@@ -4179,19 +4197,24 @@ do_sigaltstack (const stack_t *ss, stack_t *oss, unsigned long sp,
 				ss_mode != 0))
 			return -EINVAL;
 
+		sigaltstack_lock();
 		if (ss_mode == SS_DISABLE) {
 			ss_size = 0;
 			ss_sp = NULL;
 		} else {
 			if (unlikely(ss_size < min_ss_size))
-				return -ENOMEM;
+				ret = -ENOMEM;
+			if (!sigaltstack_size_valid(ss_size))
+				ret = -ENOMEM;
 		}
-
-		t->sas_ss_sp = (unsigned long) ss_sp;
-		t->sas_ss_size = ss_size;
-		t->sas_ss_flags = ss_flags;
+		if (!ret) {
+			t->sas_ss_sp = (unsigned long) ss_sp;
+			t->sas_ss_size = ss_size;
+			t->sas_ss_flags = ss_flags;
+		}
+		sigaltstack_unlock();
 	}
-	return 0;
+	return ret;
 }
 
 SYSCALL_DEFINE2(sigaltstack,const stack_t __user *,uss, stack_t __user *,uoss)