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authorGerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>2007-02-05 21:18:17 +0100
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2007-02-05 21:18:17 +0100
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[S390] noexec protection
This provides a noexec protection on s390 hardware. Our hardware does not have any bits left in the pte for a hw noexec bit, so this is a different approach using shadow page tables and a special addressing mode that allows separate address spaces for code and data. As a special feature of our "secondary-space" addressing mode, separate page tables can be specified for the translation of data addresses (storage operands) and instruction addresses. The shadow page table is used for the instruction addresses and the standard page table for the data addresses. The shadow page table is linked to the standard page table by a pointer in page->lru.next of the struct page corresponding to the page that contains the standard page table (since page->private is not really private with the pte_lock and the page table pages are not in the LRU list). Depending on the software bits of a pte, it is either inserted into both page tables or just into the standard (data) page table. Pages of a vma that does not have the VM_EXEC bit set get mapped only in the data address space. Any try to execute code on such a page will cause a page translation exception. The standard reaction to this is a SIGSEGV with two exceptions: the two system call opcodes 0x0a77 (sys_sigreturn) and 0x0aad (sys_rt_sigreturn) are allowed. They are stored by the kernel to the signal stack frame. Unfortunately, the signal return mechanism cannot be modified to use an SA_RESTORER because the exception unwinding code depends on the system call opcode stored behind the signal stack frame. This feature requires that user space is executed in secondary-space mode and the kernel in home-space mode, which means that the addressing modes need to be switched and that the noexec protection only works for user space. After switching the addressing modes, we cannot use the mvcp/mvcs instructions anymore to copy between kernel and user space. A new mvcos instruction has been added to the z9 EC/BC hardware which allows to copy between arbitrary address spaces, but on older hardware the page tables need to be walked manually. Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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@@ -134,6 +134,31 @@ config AUDIT_ARCH
bool
default y
+config S390_SWITCH_AMODE
+ bool "Switch kernel/user addressing modes"
+ help
+ This option allows to switch the addressing modes of kernel and user
+ space. The kernel parameter switch_amode=on will enable this feature,
+ default is disabled. Enabling this (via kernel parameter) on machines
+ earlier than IBM System z9-109 EC/BC will reduce system performance.
+
+ Note that this option will also be selected by selecting the execute
+ protection option below. Enabling the execute protection via the
+ noexec kernel parameter will also switch the addressing modes,
+ independent of the switch_amode kernel parameter.
+
+
+config S390_EXEC_PROTECT
+ bool "Data execute protection"
+ select S390_SWITCH_AMODE
+ help
+ This option allows to enable a buffer overflow protection for user
+ space programs and it also selects the addressing mode option above.
+ The kernel parameter noexec=on will enable this feature and also
+ switch the addressing modes, default is disabled. Enabling this (via
+ kernel parameter) on machines earlier than IBM System z9-109 EC/BC
+ will reduce system performance.
+
comment "Code generation options"
choice
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