kfence: zero guard page after out-of-bounds access
authorMarco Elver <elver@google.com>
Wed, 5 May 2021 01:40:18 +0000 (18:40 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 5 May 2021 18:27:27 +0000 (11:27 -0700)
After an out-of-bounds accesses, zero the guard page before re-protecting
in kfence_guarded_free().  On one hand this helps make the failure mode of
subsequent out-of-bounds accesses more deterministic, but could also
prevent certain information leaks.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210312121653.348518-1-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/kfence/core.c

index d53c91f..768dbd5 100644 (file)
@@ -372,6 +372,7 @@ static void kfence_guarded_free(void *addr, struct kfence_metadata *meta, bool z
 
        /* Restore page protection if there was an OOB access. */
        if (meta->unprotected_page) {
+               memzero_explicit((void *)ALIGN_DOWN(meta->unprotected_page, PAGE_SIZE), PAGE_SIZE);
                kfence_protect(meta->unprotected_page);
                meta->unprotected_page = 0;
        }