Re: [PATCH v2] module: Harden STRICT_MODULE_RWX

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 at 14:20, Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 03:07:13PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 at 15:04, Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > +++ Ard Biesheuvel [13/08/20 10:36 +0200]:
> > > >On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 at 22:00, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 06:37:57PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > >> > I know there is little we can do at this point, apart from ignoring
> > > >> > the permissions - perhaps we should just defer the w^x check until
> > > >> > after calling module_frob_arch_sections()?
> > > >>
> > > >> My earlier suggestion was to ignore it for 0-sized sections.
> > > >
> > > >Only they are 1 byte sections in this case.
> > > >
> > > >We override the sh_type and sh_flags explicitly for these sections at
> > > >module load time, so deferring the check seems like a reasonable
> > > >alternative to me.
> > >
> > > So module_enforce_rwx_sections() is already called after
> > > module_frob_arch_sections() - which really baffled me at first, since
> > > sh_type and sh_flags should have been set already in
> > > module_frob_arch_sections().
> > >
> > > I added some debug prints to see which section the module code was
> > > tripping on, and it was .text.ftrace_trampoline. See this snippet from
> > > arm64's module_frob_arch_sections():
> > >
> > >                 else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE) &&
> > >                          !strcmp(secstrings + sechdrs[i].sh_name,
> > >                                  ".text.ftrace_trampoline"))
> > >                         tramp = sechdrs + i;
> > >
> > > Since Mauro's config doesn't have CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE enabled, tramp
> > > is never set here and the if (tramp) check at the end of the function
> > > fails, so its section flags are never set, so they remain WAX and fail
> > > the rwx check.
> >
> > Right. Our module.lds does not go through the preprocessor, so we
> > cannot add the #ifdef check there currently. So we should either drop
> > the IS_ENABLED() check here, or simply rename the section, dropping
> > the .text prefix (which doesn't seem to have any significance outside
> > this context)
> >
> > I'll leave it to Will to make the final call here.
>
> Why don't we just preprocess the linker script, like we do for the main
> kernel?
>

That should work as well, I just haven't checked how straight-forward
it is to change that.