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[29/29] x86: Use INT3 instead of NOP for linker fill bytes

Message ID 20190926175602.33098-30-keescook@chromium.org (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable
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Series vmlinux.lds.h: Refactor EXCEPTION_TABLE and NOTES | expand

Commit Message

Kees Cook Sept. 26, 2019, 5:56 p.m. UTC 
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 drops 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:

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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: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index a5c8571e4967..a37817fafb22 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@  SECTIONS
 		*(.text.__x86.indirect_thunk)
 		__indirect_thunk_end = .;
 #endif
-	} :text = 0x9090
+	} :text =0xcccc
 
 	/* End of text section, which should occupy whole number of pages */
 	_etext = .;