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Commit a4866aa8 authored by Kees Cook's avatar Kees Cook
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mm: Tighten x86 /dev/mem with zeroing reads



Under CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM, reading System RAM through /dev/mem is
disallowed. However, on x86, the first 1MB was always allowed for BIOS
and similar things, regardless of it actually being System RAM. It was
possible for heap to end up getting allocated in low 1MB RAM, and then
read by things like x86info or dd, which would trip hardened usercopy:

usercopy: kernel memory exposure attempt detected from ffff880000090000 (dma-kmalloc-256) (4096 bytes)

This changes the x86 exception for the low 1MB by reading back zeros for
System RAM areas instead of blindly allowing them. More work is needed to
extend this to mmap, but currently mmap doesn't go through usercopy, so
hardened usercopy won't Oops the kernel.

Reported-by: default avatarTommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com>
Tested-by: default avatarTommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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