[PATCH v4 1/4] SROP Mitigation: Architecture independent code for signal cookies

From: Scott Bauer
Date: Tue Mar 29 2016 - 15:54:08 EST


This patch adds a per-process secret to the task struct which
will be used during signal delivery and during a sigreturn.
Also, logic is added in signal.c to generate, place, extract,
clear and verify the signal cookie.

Cc: Abhiram Balasubramanian <abhiram@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Scott Bauer <sbauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Scott Bauer <sbauer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/exec.c | 3 +++
include/linux/sched.h | 7 +++++++
include/linux/signal.h | 2 ++
kernel/signal.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 52 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index c4010b8..5d55c01 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
#include <linux/oom.h>
#include <linux/compat.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>

#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/mmu_context.h>
@@ -1231,6 +1232,8 @@ void setup_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
/* This is the point of no return */
current->sas_ss_sp = current->sas_ss_size = 0;

+ get_random_bytes(&current->sig_cookie, sizeof(current->sig_cookie));
+
if (uid_eq(current_euid(), current_uid()) && gid_eq(current_egid(), current_gid()))
set_dumpable(current->mm, SUID_DUMP_USER);
else
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 60bba7e..1828fb8 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1502,6 +1502,13 @@ struct task_struct {
unsigned long stack_canary;
#endif
/*
+ * Canary value for signal frames placed on user stack.
+ * This helps mitigate "Signal Return oriented program"
+ * exploits in userland.
+ */
+ unsigned long sig_cookie;
+
+ /*
* pointers to (original) parent process, youngest child, younger sibling,
* older sibling, respectively. (p->father can be replaced with
* p->real_parent->pid)
diff --git a/include/linux/signal.h b/include/linux/signal.h
index 92557bb..fae0618 100644
--- a/include/linux/signal.h
+++ b/include/linux/signal.h
@@ -280,6 +280,8 @@ extern int get_signal(struct ksignal *ksig);
extern void signal_setup_done(int failed, struct ksignal *ksig, int stepping);
extern void exit_signals(struct task_struct *tsk);
extern void kernel_sigaction(int, __sighandler_t);
+extern int set_sigcookie(unsigned long __user *location);
+extern int verify_clear_sigcookie(unsigned long __user *sig_cookie_ptr);

static inline void allow_signal(int sig)
{
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index aa9bf00..1e4f65c 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -2430,6 +2430,46 @@ out:
}
}

+static unsigned long gen_sigcookie(unsigned long __user *location)
+{
+
+ unsigned long sig_cookie;
+ sig_cookie = (unsigned long) location ^ current->sig_cookie;
+
+ return sig_cookie;
+}
+
+int set_sigcookie(unsigned long __user *location)
+{
+
+ unsigned long sig_cookie = gen_sigcookie(location);
+
+ return put_user(sig_cookie, location);
+}
+
+int verify_clear_sigcookie(unsigned long __user *sig_cookie_ptr)
+{
+ unsigned long user_cookie;
+ unsigned long calculated_cookie;
+
+ if (get_user(user_cookie, sig_cookie_ptr))
+ return 1;
+
+ calculated_cookie = gen_sigcookie(sig_cookie_ptr);
+
+ if (user_cookie != calculated_cookie) {
+ pr_warn("Signal protector does not match what kernel set it to"\
+ ". Possible exploit attempt or buggy program!\n");
+ return 1;
+
+ }
+
+ user_cookie = 0;
+ return put_user(user_cookie, sig_cookie_ptr);
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(verify_clear_sigcookie);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_sigcookie);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(recalc_sigpending);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dequeue_signal);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_signals);
--
1.9.1