From: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
To: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>,
libc-alpha@sourceware.org, Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] arm64: Enable BTI for the executable as well as the interpreter
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 16:22:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210615152203.GR4187@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e67d7b-aab9-db1f-f74b-a87ba7442d47@arm.com>
On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:28:12AM -0500, Jeremy Linton via Libc-alpha wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 6/4/21 6:24 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> >Deployments of BTI on arm64 have run into issues interacting with
> >systemd's MemoryDenyWriteExecute feature. Currently for dynamically
> >linked executables the kernel will only handle architecture specific
> >properties like BTI for the interpreter, the expectation is that the
> >interpreter will then handle any properties on the main executable.
> >For BTI this means remapping the executable segments PROT_EXEC |
> >PROT_BTI.
> >
> >This interacts poorly with MemoryDenyWriteExecute since that is
> >implemented using a seccomp filter which prevents setting PROT_EXEC on
> >already mapped memory and lacks the context to be able to detect that
> >memory is already mapped with PROT_EXEC. This series resolves this by
> >handling the BTI property for both the interpreter and the main
> >executable.
>
> I've got a Fedora34 system booting in qemu or a model with BTI enabled. On
> that system I took the systemd-resolved executable, which is one of the
> services with MDWE enabled, and replaced a number of the bti's with nops. I
> expect the service to continue to work with the fedora or mainline 5.13
> kernel and it does. If instead I boot with MDWE=no for the service, it
> should fail to start given either of those kernels, and it does.
>
> Thus, I expect that with his patch applied to 5.13 the service will fail to
> start regardless of the state of MDWE, but it seems to continue starting
> when I set MDWE=yes. Same behavior with v1 FWTW.
>
> Of course, there is a good chance I've messed something up or i'm missing
> something. I should really validate the /lib/ld-linux behavior itself too. I
> guess this could just as well be a glibc issue (f34 has glibc 2.33-5 which
> appears to have the re-mmap on failure patch). Either way, systemd-resolved
> is a LSB PIE, with /lib/ld-linux as its interpreter. I've not dug too deep
> into debugging this, cause I've got a couple other things I need to deal
> with in the next couple days, and I strongly dislike booting a full
> debug+system on the model. chuckle, sorry...
[...]
If the failure we're trying to detect is that BTI is undesirably left
off for the main executable, surely replacing BTIs with NOPs will make
no differenece? The behaviour with PROT_BTI clear is strictly more
permissive than with PROT_BTI set, so I'm not sure we can test the
behaviour this way.
Maybe I'm missing sometihng / confused myself somewhere.
Looking at /proc/<pid>/maps after the process starts up may be a more
reliable approach, so see what the actual prot value is on the main
executable's text pages.
Cheers
---Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-15 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-04 11:24 Mark Brown
2021-06-04 11:24 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] elf: Allow architectures to parse properties on the main executable Mark Brown
2021-06-09 15:16 ` Dave Martin
2021-06-10 13:41 ` Mark Brown
2021-06-04 11:24 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] arm64: Enable BTI for main executable as well as the interpreter Mark Brown
2021-06-09 15:17 ` Dave Martin
2021-06-10 13:19 ` Mark Brown
2021-06-10 15:34 ` Dave Martin
2021-06-04 11:24 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] elf: Remove has_interp property from arch_adjust_elf_prot() Mark Brown
2021-06-09 15:17 ` Dave Martin
2021-06-09 16:55 ` Yu, Yu-cheng
2021-06-10 9:58 ` Dave Martin
2021-06-10 18:17 ` Yu, Yu-cheng
2021-06-10 13:34 ` Mark Brown
2021-06-10 15:40 ` Dave Martin
2021-06-10 16:28 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] arm64: Enable BTI for the executable as well as the interpreter Jeremy Linton
2021-06-14 16:00 ` Mark Brown
2021-06-15 15:22 ` Dave Martin [this message]
2021-06-15 15:33 ` Mark Brown
2021-06-15 15:41 ` Dave Martin
2021-06-16 5:12 ` Jeremy Linton
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