gcc-plugins: Add the randstruct plugin

This randstruct plugin is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's code
in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my understanding
of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are mine and
don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.

The randstruct GCC plugin randomizes the layout of selected structures
at compile time, as a probabilistic defense against attacks that need to
know the layout of structures within the kernel. This is most useful for
"in-house" kernel builds where neither the randomization seed nor other
build artifacts are made available to an attacker. While less useful for
distribution kernels (where the randomization seed must be exposed for
third party kernel module builds), it still has some value there since now
all kernel builds would need to be tracked by an attacker.

In more performance sensitive scenarios, GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE
can be selected to make a best effort to restrict randomization to
cacheline-sized groups of elements, and will not randomize bitfields. This
comes at the cost of reduced randomization.

Two annotations are defined,__randomize_layout and __no_randomize_layout,
which respectively tell the plugin to either randomize or not to
randomize instances of the struct in question. Follow-on patches enable
the auto-detection logic for selecting structures for randomization
that contain only function pointers. It is disabled here to assist with
bisection.

Since any randomized structs must be initialized using designated
initializers, __randomize_layout includes the __designated_init annotation
even when the plugin is disabled so that all builds will require
the needed initialization. (With the plugin enabled, annotations for
automatically chosen structures are marked as well.)

The main differences between this implemenation and grsecurity are:
- disable automatic struct selection (to be enabled in follow-up patch)
- add designated_init attribute at runtime and for manual marking
- clarify debugging output to differentiate bad cast warnings
- add whitelisting infrastructure
- support gcc 7's DECL_ALIGN and DECL_MODE changes (Laura Abbott)
- raise minimum required GCC version to 4.7

Earlier versions of this patch series were ported by Michael Leibowitz.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 6c00e5b..810bf20 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -443,6 +443,45 @@ config GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_VERBOSE
 	  initialized. Since not all existing initializers are detected
 	  by the plugin, this can produce false positive warnings.
 
+config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT
+	bool "Randomize layout of sensitive kernel structures"
+	depends on GCC_PLUGINS
+	select MODVERSIONS if MODULES
+	help
+	  If you say Y here, the layouts of structures explicitly
+	  marked by __randomize_layout will be randomized at
+	  compile-time.  This can introduce the requirement of an
+	  additional information exposure vulnerability for exploits
+	  targeting these structure types.
+
+	  Enabling this feature will introduce some performance impact,
+	  slightly increase memory usage, and prevent the use of forensic
+	  tools like Volatility against the system (unless the kernel
+	  source tree isn't cleaned after kernel installation).
+
+	  The seed used for compilation is located at
+	  scripts/gcc-plgins/randomize_layout_seed.h.  It remains after
+	  a make clean to allow for external modules to be compiled with
+	  the existing seed and will be removed by a make mrproper or
+	  make distclean.
+
+	  Note that the implementation requires gcc 4.7 or newer.
+
+	  This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
+	   * https://grsecurity.net/
+	   * https://pax.grsecurity.net/
+
+config GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT_PERFORMANCE
+	bool "Use cacheline-aware structure randomization"
+	depends on GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT
+	depends on !COMPILE_TEST
+	help
+	  If you say Y here, the RANDSTRUCT randomization will make a
+	  best effort at restricting randomization to cacheline-sized
+	  groups of elements.  It will further not randomize bitfields
+	  in structures.  This reduces the performance hit of RANDSTRUCT
+	  at the cost of weakened randomization.
+
 config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
 	bool
 	help