[PATCH v2 2/2] ARM: mm: allow text and rodata sections to be read-only

[Kees Cook]

This introduces CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA, making kernel text and rodata
read-only. Additionally, this splits rodata from text so that rodata can
also be NX, which may lead to wasted memory when aligning to SECTION_SIZE.

The read-only areas are made writable during ftrace updates. Additional
work is needed for kprobes and kexec, so the feature is temporarily
marked as unavailable in Kconfig when those options are selected.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h |    9 ++++++++
 arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c          |   17 ++++++++++++++
 arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S     |    3 +++
 arch/arm/mm/Kconfig               |   12 ++++++++++
 arch/arm/mm/init.c                |   46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 87 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
index 8b8b61685a34..b6fea0a1a88b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
@@ -487,4 +487,13 @@ int set_memory_rw(unsigned long addr, int numpages);
 int set_memory_x(unsigned long addr, int numpages);
 int set_memory_nx(unsigned long addr, int numpages);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
+void mark_rodata_ro(void);
+void set_kernel_text_rw(void);
+void set_kernel_text_ro(void);
+#else
+static inline void set_kernel_text_rw(void) { }
+static inline void set_kernel_text_ro(void) { }
+#endif
+
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c
index af9a8a927a4e..ea446ae09c89 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/ftrace.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/stop_machine.h>
 
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 #include <asm/opcodes.h>
@@ -35,6 +36,22 @@
 
 #define	OLD_NOP		0xe1a00000	/* mov r0, r0 */
 
+static int __ftrace_modify_code(void *data)
+{
+	int *command = data;
+
+	set_kernel_text_rw();
+	ftrace_modify_all_code(*command);
+	set_kernel_text_ro();
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+void arch_ftrace_update_code(int command)
+{
+	stop_machine(__ftrace_modify_code, &command, NULL);
+}
+
 static unsigned long ftrace_nop_replace(struct dyn_ftrace *rec)
 {
 	return rec->arch.old_mcount ? OLD_NOP : NOP;
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 08fa667ef2f1..ec79e7268e09 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ SECTIONS
 			ARM_CPU_KEEP(PROC_INFO)
 	}
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
+	. = ALIGN(1<<SECTION_SHIFT);
+#endif
 	RO_DATA(PAGE_SIZE)
 
 	. = ALIGN(4);
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
index b484fb04cf6f..e767ab6e1c27 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
@@ -966,3 +966,15 @@ config ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS
 	  padded to section-size (1MiB) boundaries (because their permissions
 	  are different and splitting the 1M pages into 4K ones causes TLB
 	  performance problems), wasting memory.
+
+config DEBUG_RODATA
+	bool "Make kernel text and rodata read-only"
+	depends on ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS && KEXEC=n && KPROBES=n
+	default y
+	help
+	  If this is set, kernel text and rodata will be made read-only. This
+	  is to help catch accidental or malicious attempts to change the
+	  kernel's executable code. Additionally splits rodata from kernel
+	  text so it can be made explicitly non-executable. This creates
+	  another section-size padded region, so it can waste more memory
+	  space while gaining the read-only protections.
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/init.c b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
index 66a7283583cd..74647a4f1af4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/init.c
@@ -634,6 +634,7 @@ struct section_perm {
 	unsigned long end;
 	pmdval_t mask;
 	pmdval_t prot;
+	pmdval_t clear;
 };
 
 struct section_perm nx_perms[] = {
@@ -651,8 +652,35 @@ struct section_perm nx_perms[] = {
 		.mask	= ~PMD_SECT_XN,
 		.prot	= PMD_SECT_XN,
 	},
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
+	/* Make rodata NX (set RO in ro_perms below). */
+	{
+		.start  = (unsigned long)__start_rodata,
+		.end    = (unsigned long)__init_begin,
+		.mask   = ~PMD_SECT_XN,
+		.prot   = PMD_SECT_XN,
+	},
+#endif
 };
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
+struct section_perm ro_perms[] = {
+	/* Make kernel code and rodata RX (set RO). */
+	{
+		.start  = (unsigned long)_stext,
+		.end    = (unsigned long)__init_begin,
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_LPAE
+		.mask   = ~PMD_SECT_RDONLY,
+		.prot   = PMD_SECT_RDONLY,
+#else
+		.mask   = ~(PMD_SECT_APX | PMD_SECT_AP_WRITE),
+		.prot   = PMD_SECT_APX | PMD_SECT_AP_WRITE,
+		.clear  = PMD_SECT_AP_WRITE,
+#endif
+	},
+};
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Updates section permissions only for the current mm (sections are
  * copied into each mm). During startup, this is the init_mm.
@@ -721,6 +749,24 @@ static inline void fix_kernmem_perms(void)
 {
 	set_section_perms(nx_perms, prot);
 }
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA
+void mark_rodata_ro(void)
+{
+	set_section_perms(ro_perms, prot);
+}
+
+void set_kernel_text_rw(void)
+{
+	set_section_perms(ro_perms, clear);
+}
+
+void set_kernel_text_ro(void)
+{
+	set_section_perms(ro_perms, prot);
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA */
+
 #else
 static inline void fix_kernmem_perms(void) { }
 #endif /* CONFIG_ARM_KERNMEM_PERMS */
-- 
1.7.9.5

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