From patchwork Fri Aug 9 10:08:00 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Jason Yan X-Patchwork-Id: 11086153 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49A0413B1 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2019 09:54:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3859828C2B for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2019 09:54:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 2BDED28C5E; Fri, 9 Aug 2019 09:54:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from mother.openwall.net (mother.openwall.net [195.42.179.200]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4842C28C2B for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2019 09:53:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 13928 invoked by uid 550); 9 Aug 2019 09:52:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact kernel-hardening-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Delivered-To: mailing list kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Received: (qmail 13645 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2019 09:52:20 -0000 From: Jason Yan To: , , , , , , , , CC: , , , , , , , Jason Yan Subject: [PATCH v6 12/12] powerpc/fsl_booke/32: Document KASLR implementation Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 18:08:00 +0800 Message-ID: <20190809100800.5426-13-yanaijie@huawei.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.2 In-Reply-To: <20190809100800.5426-1-yanaijie@huawei.com> References: <20190809100800.5426-1-yanaijie@huawei.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [10.175.124.28] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Add document to explain how we implement KASLR for fsl_booke32. Signed-off-by: Jason Yan Cc: Diana Craciun Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Kees Cook --- Documentation/powerpc/kaslr-booke32.rst | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/powerpc/kaslr-booke32.rst diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/kaslr-booke32.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/kaslr-booke32.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8b259fdfdf03 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/kaslr-booke32.rst @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=========================== +KASLR for Freescale BookE32 +=========================== + +The word KASLR stands for Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization. + +This document tries to explain the implementation of the KASLR for +Freescale BookE32. KASLR is a security feature that deters exploit +attempts relying on knowledge of the location of kernel internals. + +Since CONFIG_RELOCATABLE has already supported, what we need to do is +map or copy kernel to a proper place and relocate. Freescale Book-E +parts expect lowmem to be mapped by fixed TLB entries(TLB1). The TLB1 +entries are not suitable to map the kernel directly in a randomized +region, so we chose to copy the kernel to a proper place and restart to +relocate. + +Entropy is derived from the banner and timer base, which will change every +build and boot. This not so much safe so additionally the bootloader may +pass entropy via the /chosen/kaslr-seed node in device tree. + +We will use the first 512M of the low memory to randomize the kernel +image. The memory will be split in 64M zones. We will use the lower 8 +bit of the entropy to decide the index of the 64M zone. Then we chose a +16K aligned offset inside the 64M zone to put the kernel in:: + + KERNELBASE + + |--> 64M <--| + | | + +---------------+ +----------------+---------------+ + | |....| |kernel| | | + +---------------+ +----------------+---------------+ + | | + |-----> offset <-----| + + kernstart_virt_addr + +To enable KASLR, set CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE = y. If KASLR is enable and you +want to disable it at runtime, add "nokaslr" to the kernel cmdline.