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Commit 7705dc85 authored by Kees Cook's avatar Kees Cook Committed by Borislav Petkov
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x86/vmlinux: Use INT3 instead of NOP for linker fill bytes

Instead of using 0x90 (NOP) to fill bytes between functions, which makes
it easier to sloppily target functions in function pointer overwrite
attacks, fill with 0xCC (INT3) to force a trap. Also drop the space
between "=" and the value to better match the binutils documentation

  https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Output-Section-Fill.html#Output-Section-Fill



Example "objdump -d" before:

  ...
  ffffffff810001e0 <start_cpu0>:
  ffffffff810001e0:       48 8b 25 e1 b1 51 01    mov 0x151b1e1(%rip),%rsp        # ffffffff8251b3c8 <initial_stack>
  ffffffff810001e7:       e9 d5 fe ff ff          jmpq   ffffffff810000c1 <secondary_startup_64+0x91>
  ffffffff810001ec:       90                      nop
  ffffffff810001ed:       90                      nop
  ffffffff810001ee:       90                      nop
  ffffffff810001ef:       90                      nop

  ffffffff810001f0 <__startup_64>:
  ...

After:

  ...
  ffffffff810001e0 <start_cpu0>:
  ffffffff810001e0:       48 8b 25 41 79 53 01    mov 0x1537941(%rip),%rsp        # ffffffff82537b28 <initial_stack>
  ffffffff810001e7:       e9 d5 fe ff ff          jmpq   ffffffff810000c1 <secondary_startup_64+0x91>
  ffffffff810001ec:       cc                      int3
  ffffffff810001ed:       cc                      int3
  ffffffff810001ee:       cc                      int3
  ffffffff810001ef:       cc                      int3

  ffffffff810001f0 <__startup_64>:
  ...

Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@chromium.org>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Lendacky <Thomas.Lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-30-keescook@chromium.org
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