x86/mm: Warn on W^X mappings

Warn on any residual W+X mappings after setting NX
if DEBUG_WX is enabled.  Introduce a separate
X86_PTDUMP_CORE config that enables the code for
dumping the page tables without enabling the debugfs
interface, so that DEBUG_WX can be enabled without
exposing the debugfs interface.  Switch EFI_PGT_DUMP
to using X86_PTDUMP_CORE so that it also does not require
enabling the debugfs interface.

On success it prints this to the kernel log:

  x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found.

On failure it prints a warning and a count of the failed pages:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c:226 note_page+0x610/0x7b0()
  x86/mm: Found insecure W+X mapping at address ffffffff81755000/__stop___ex_table+0xfa8/0xabfa8
  [...]
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff81380a5f>] dump_stack+0x44/0x55
   [<ffffffff8109d3f2>] warn_slowpath_common+0x82/0xc0
   [<ffffffff8109d48c>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5c/0x80
   [<ffffffff8106cfc9>] ? note_page+0x5c9/0x7b0
   [<ffffffff8106d010>] note_page+0x610/0x7b0
   [<ffffffff8106d409>] ptdump_walk_pgd_level_core+0x259/0x3c0
   [<ffffffff8106d5a7>] ptdump_walk_pgd_level_checkwx+0x17/0x20
   [<ffffffff81063905>] mark_rodata_ro+0xf5/0x100
   [<ffffffff817415a0>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
   [<ffffffff817415bd>] kernel_init+0x1d/0xe0
   [<ffffffff8174cd1f>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70
   [<ffffffff817415a0>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
  ---[ end trace a1f23a1e42a2ac76 ]---
  x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: FAILED, 171 W+X pages found.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444064120-11450-1-git-send-email-sds@tycho.nsa.gov
[ Improved the Kconfig help text and made the new option default-y
  if CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y, because it already found buggy mappings,
  so we really want people to have this on by default. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
index d8c0d3266173..3e0baf726eef 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
@@ -65,10 +65,14 @@ config EARLY_PRINTK_EFI
 	  This is useful for kernel debugging when your machine crashes very
 	  early before the console code is initialized.
 
+config X86_PTDUMP_CORE
+	def_bool n
+
 config X86_PTDUMP
 	bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
 	select DEBUG_FS
+	select X86_PTDUMP_CORE
 	---help---
 	  Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a
 	  debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
@@ -79,7 +83,8 @@ config X86_PTDUMP
 
 config EFI_PGT_DUMP
 	bool "Dump the EFI pagetable"
-	depends on EFI && X86_PTDUMP
+	depends on EFI
+	select X86_PTDUMP_CORE
 	---help---
 	  Enable this if you want to dump the EFI page table before
 	  enabling virtual mode. This can be used to debug miscellaneous
@@ -105,6 +110,35 @@ config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
 	  feature as well as for the change_page_attr() infrastructure.
 	  If in doubt, say "N"
 
+config DEBUG_WX
+	bool "Warn on W+X mappings at boot"
+	depends on DEBUG_RODATA
+	default y
+	select X86_PTDUMP_CORE
+	---help---
+	  Generate a warning if any W+X mappings are found at boot.
+
+	  This is useful for discovering cases where the kernel is leaving
+	  W+X mappings after applying NX, as such mappings are a security risk.
+
+	  Look for a message in dmesg output like this:
+
+	    x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found.
+
+	  or like this, if the check failed:
+
+	    x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: FAILED, <N> W+X pages found.
+
+	  Note that even if the check fails, your kernel is possibly
+	  still fine, as W+X mappings are not a security hole in
+	  themselves, what they do is that they make the exploitation
+	  of other unfixed kernel bugs easier.
+
+	  There is no runtime or memory usage effect of this option
+	  once the kernel has booted up - it's a one time check.
+
+	  If in doubt, say "Y".
+
 config DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX
 	bool "Set loadable kernel module data as NX and text as RO"
 	depends on MODULES