Revision bbcd53c960713507ae764bf81970651b5577b95a authored by David Hildenbrand on 07 May 2021, 01:05:55 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 07 May 2021, 07:26:34 UTC
Patch series "drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good".

Exploring /dev/kmem and /dev/mem in the context of memory hot(un)plug and
memory ballooning, I started questioning the existence of /dev/kmem.

Comparing it with the /proc/kcore implementation, it does not seem to be
able to deal with things like

a) Pages unmapped from the direct mapping (e.g., to be used by secretmem)
  -> kern_addr_valid(). virt_addr_valid() is not sufficient.

b) Special cases like gart aperture memory that is not to be touched
  -> mem_pfn_is_ram()

Unless I am missing something, it's at least broken in some cases and might
fault/crash the machine.

Looks like its existence has been questioned before in 2005 and 2010 [1],
after ~11 additional years, it might make sense to revive the discussion.

CONFIG_DEVKMEM is only enabled in a single defconfig (on purpose or by
mistake?).  All distributions disable it: in Ubuntu it has been disabled
for more than 10 years, in Debian since 2.6.31, in Fedora at least
starting with FC3, in RHEL starting with RHEL4, in SUSE starting from
15sp2, and OpenSUSE has it disabled as well.

1) /dev/kmem was popular for rootkits [2] before it got disabled
   basically everywhere. Ubuntu documents [3] "There is no modern user of
   /dev/kmem any more beyond attackers using it to load kernel rootkits.".
   RHEL documents in a BZ [5] "it served no practical purpose other than to
   serve as a potential security problem or to enable binary module drivers
   to access structures/functions they shouldn't be touching"

2) /proc/kcore is a decent interface to have a controlled way to read
   kernel memory for debugging puposes. (will need some extensions to
   deal with memory offlining/unplug, memory ballooning, and poisoned
   pages, though)

3) It might be useful for corner case debugging [1]. KDB/KGDB might be a
   better fit, especially, to write random memory; harder to shoot
   yourself into the foot.

4) "Kernel Memory Editor" [4] hasn't seen any updates since 2000 and seems
   to be incompatible with 64bit [1]. For educational purposes,
   /proc/kcore might be used to monitor value updates -- or older
   kernels can be used.

5) It's broken on arm64, and therefore, completely disabled there.

Looks like it's essentially unused and has been replaced by better
suited interfaces for individual tasks (/proc/kcore, KDB/KGDB). Let's
just remove it.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/147901/
[2] https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10505
[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#A.2Fdev.2Fkmem_disabled
[4] https://sourceforge.net/projects/kme/
[5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=154796

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-1-david@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
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binfmt_aout.c
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
/*
 *  linux/fs/binfmt_aout.c
 *
 *  Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1996  Linus Torvalds
 */

#include <linux/module.h>

#include <linux/time.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/mman.h>
#include <linux/a.out.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/signal.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/file.h>
#include <linux/stat.h>
#include <linux/fcntl.h>
#include <linux/ptrace.h>
#include <linux/user.h>
#include <linux/binfmts.h>
#include <linux/personality.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/coredump.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/sched/task_stack.h>

#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>

static int load_aout_binary(struct linux_binprm *);
static int load_aout_library(struct file*);

static struct linux_binfmt aout_format = {
	.module		= THIS_MODULE,
	.load_binary	= load_aout_binary,
	.load_shlib	= load_aout_library,
};

#define BAD_ADDR(x)	((unsigned long)(x) >= TASK_SIZE)

static int set_brk(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
	start = PAGE_ALIGN(start);
	end = PAGE_ALIGN(end);
	if (end > start)
		return vm_brk(start, end - start);
	return 0;
}

/*
 * create_aout_tables() parses the env- and arg-strings in new user
 * memory and creates the pointer tables from them, and puts their
 * addresses on the "stack", returning the new stack pointer value.
 */
static unsigned long __user *create_aout_tables(char __user *p, struct linux_binprm * bprm)
{
	char __user * __user *argv;
	char __user * __user *envp;
	unsigned long __user *sp;
	int argc = bprm->argc;
	int envc = bprm->envc;

	sp = (void __user *)((-(unsigned long)sizeof(char *)) & (unsigned long) p);
#ifdef __alpha__
/* whee.. test-programs are so much fun. */
	put_user(0, --sp);
	put_user(0, --sp);
	if (bprm->loader) {
		put_user(0, --sp);
		put_user(1003, --sp);
		put_user(bprm->loader, --sp);
		put_user(1002, --sp);
	}
	put_user(bprm->exec, --sp);
	put_user(1001, --sp);
#endif
	sp -= envc+1;
	envp = (char __user * __user *) sp;
	sp -= argc+1;
	argv = (char __user * __user *) sp;
#ifndef __alpha__
	put_user((unsigned long) envp,--sp);
	put_user((unsigned long) argv,--sp);
#endif
	put_user(argc,--sp);
	current->mm->arg_start = (unsigned long) p;
	while (argc-->0) {
		char c;
		put_user(p,argv++);
		do {
			get_user(c,p++);
		} while (c);
	}
	put_user(NULL,argv);
	current->mm->arg_end = current->mm->env_start = (unsigned long) p;
	while (envc-->0) {
		char c;
		put_user(p,envp++);
		do {
			get_user(c,p++);
		} while (c);
	}
	put_user(NULL,envp);
	current->mm->env_end = (unsigned long) p;
	return sp;
}

/*
 * These are the functions used to load a.out style executables and shared
 * libraries.  There is no binary dependent code anywhere else.
 */

static int load_aout_binary(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
{
	struct pt_regs *regs = current_pt_regs();
	struct exec ex;
	unsigned long error;
	unsigned long fd_offset;
	unsigned long rlim;
	int retval;

	ex = *((struct exec *) bprm->buf);		/* exec-header */
	if ((N_MAGIC(ex) != ZMAGIC && N_MAGIC(ex) != OMAGIC &&
	     N_MAGIC(ex) != QMAGIC && N_MAGIC(ex) != NMAGIC) ||
	    N_TRSIZE(ex) || N_DRSIZE(ex) ||
	    i_size_read(file_inode(bprm->file)) < ex.a_text+ex.a_data+N_SYMSIZE(ex)+N_TXTOFF(ex)) {
		return -ENOEXEC;
	}

	/*
	 * Requires a mmap handler. This prevents people from using a.out
	 * as part of an exploit attack against /proc-related vulnerabilities.
	 */
	if (!bprm->file->f_op->mmap)
		return -ENOEXEC;

	fd_offset = N_TXTOFF(ex);

	/* Check initial limits. This avoids letting people circumvent
	 * size limits imposed on them by creating programs with large
	 * arrays in the data or bss.
	 */
	rlim = rlimit(RLIMIT_DATA);
	if (rlim >= RLIM_INFINITY)
		rlim = ~0;
	if (ex.a_data + ex.a_bss > rlim)
		return -ENOMEM;

	/* Flush all traces of the currently running executable */
	retval = begin_new_exec(bprm);
	if (retval)
		return retval;

	/* OK, This is the point of no return */
#ifdef __alpha__
	SET_AOUT_PERSONALITY(bprm, ex);
#else
	set_personality(PER_LINUX);
#endif
	setup_new_exec(bprm);

	current->mm->end_code = ex.a_text +
		(current->mm->start_code = N_TXTADDR(ex));
	current->mm->end_data = ex.a_data +
		(current->mm->start_data = N_DATADDR(ex));
	current->mm->brk = ex.a_bss +
		(current->mm->start_brk = N_BSSADDR(ex));

	retval = setup_arg_pages(bprm, STACK_TOP, EXSTACK_DEFAULT);
	if (retval < 0)
		return retval;


	if (N_MAGIC(ex) == OMAGIC) {
		unsigned long text_addr, map_size;
		loff_t pos;

		text_addr = N_TXTADDR(ex);

#ifdef __alpha__
		pos = fd_offset;
		map_size = ex.a_text+ex.a_data + PAGE_SIZE - 1;
#else
		pos = 32;
		map_size = ex.a_text+ex.a_data;
#endif
		error = vm_brk(text_addr & PAGE_MASK, map_size);
		if (error)
			return error;

		error = read_code(bprm->file, text_addr, pos,
				  ex.a_text+ex.a_data);
		if ((signed long)error < 0)
			return error;
	} else {
		if ((ex.a_text & 0xfff || ex.a_data & 0xfff) &&
		    (N_MAGIC(ex) != NMAGIC) && printk_ratelimit())
		{
			printk(KERN_NOTICE "executable not page aligned\n");
		}

		if ((fd_offset & ~PAGE_MASK) != 0 && printk_ratelimit())
		{
			printk(KERN_WARNING 
			       "fd_offset is not page aligned. Please convert program: %pD\n",
			       bprm->file);
		}

		if (!bprm->file->f_op->mmap||((fd_offset & ~PAGE_MASK) != 0)) {
			error = vm_brk(N_TXTADDR(ex), ex.a_text+ex.a_data);
			if (error)
				return error;

			read_code(bprm->file, N_TXTADDR(ex), fd_offset,
				  ex.a_text + ex.a_data);
			goto beyond_if;
		}

		error = vm_mmap(bprm->file, N_TXTADDR(ex), ex.a_text,
			PROT_READ | PROT_EXEC,
			MAP_FIXED | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_DENYWRITE | MAP_EXECUTABLE,
			fd_offset);

		if (error != N_TXTADDR(ex))
			return error;

		error = vm_mmap(bprm->file, N_DATADDR(ex), ex.a_data,
				PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC,
				MAP_FIXED | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_DENYWRITE | MAP_EXECUTABLE,
				fd_offset + ex.a_text);
		if (error != N_DATADDR(ex))
			return error;
	}
beyond_if:
	set_binfmt(&aout_format);

	retval = set_brk(current->mm->start_brk, current->mm->brk);
	if (retval < 0)
		return retval;

	current->mm->start_stack =
		(unsigned long) create_aout_tables((char __user *) bprm->p, bprm);
#ifdef __alpha__
	regs->gp = ex.a_gpvalue;
#endif
	finalize_exec(bprm);
	start_thread(regs, ex.a_entry, current->mm->start_stack);
	return 0;
}

static int load_aout_library(struct file *file)
{
	struct inode * inode;
	unsigned long bss, start_addr, len;
	unsigned long error;
	int retval;
	struct exec ex;
	loff_t pos = 0;

	inode = file_inode(file);

	retval = -ENOEXEC;
	error = kernel_read(file, &ex, sizeof(ex), &pos);
	if (error != sizeof(ex))
		goto out;

	/* We come in here for the regular a.out style of shared libraries */
	if ((N_MAGIC(ex) != ZMAGIC && N_MAGIC(ex) != QMAGIC) || N_TRSIZE(ex) ||
	    N_DRSIZE(ex) || ((ex.a_entry & 0xfff) && N_MAGIC(ex) == ZMAGIC) ||
	    i_size_read(inode) < ex.a_text+ex.a_data+N_SYMSIZE(ex)+N_TXTOFF(ex)) {
		goto out;
	}

	/*
	 * Requires a mmap handler. This prevents people from using a.out
	 * as part of an exploit attack against /proc-related vulnerabilities.
	 */
	if (!file->f_op->mmap)
		goto out;

	if (N_FLAGS(ex))
		goto out;

	/* For  QMAGIC, the starting address is 0x20 into the page.  We mask
	   this off to get the starting address for the page */

	start_addr =  ex.a_entry & 0xfffff000;

	if ((N_TXTOFF(ex) & ~PAGE_MASK) != 0) {
		if (printk_ratelimit())
		{
			printk(KERN_WARNING 
			       "N_TXTOFF is not page aligned. Please convert library: %pD\n",
			       file);
		}
		retval = vm_brk(start_addr, ex.a_text + ex.a_data + ex.a_bss);
		if (retval)
			goto out;

		read_code(file, start_addr, N_TXTOFF(ex),
			  ex.a_text + ex.a_data);
		retval = 0;
		goto out;
	}
	/* Now use mmap to map the library into memory. */
	error = vm_mmap(file, start_addr, ex.a_text + ex.a_data,
			PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC,
			MAP_FIXED | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_DENYWRITE,
			N_TXTOFF(ex));
	retval = error;
	if (error != start_addr)
		goto out;

	len = PAGE_ALIGN(ex.a_text + ex.a_data);
	bss = ex.a_text + ex.a_data + ex.a_bss;
	if (bss > len) {
		retval = vm_brk(start_addr + len, bss - len);
		if (retval)
			goto out;
	}
	retval = 0;
out:
	return retval;
}

static int __init init_aout_binfmt(void)
{
	register_binfmt(&aout_format);
	return 0;
}

static void __exit exit_aout_binfmt(void)
{
	unregister_binfmt(&aout_format);
}

core_initcall(init_aout_binfmt);
module_exit(exit_aout_binfmt);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
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