Commit ee59dff1 authored by Jeff Xu's avatar Jeff Xu Committed by Kalesh Singh
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BACKPORT: mseal: add mseal syscall

The new mseal() is an syscall on 64 bit CPU, and with following signature:

int mseal(void addr, size_t len, unsigned long flags)
addr/len: memory range.
flags: reserved.

mseal() blocks following operations for the given memory range.

1> Unmapping, moving to another location, and shrinking the size,
   via munmap() and mremap(), can leave an empty space, therefore can
   be replaced with a VMA with a new set of attributes.

2> Moving or expanding a different VMA into the current location,
   via mremap().

3> Modifying a VMA via mmap(MAP_FIXED).

4> Size expansion, via mremap(), does not appear to pose any specific
   risks to sealed VMAs. It is included anyway because the use case is
   unclear. In any case, users can rely on merging to expand a sealed VMA.

5> mprotect() and pkey_mprotect().

6> Some destructive madvice() behaviors (e.g. MADV_DONTNEED) for anonymous
   memory, when users don't have write permission to the memory. Those
   behaviors can alter region contents by discarding pages, effectively a
   memset(0) for anonymous memory.

Following input during RFC are incooperated into this patch:

Jann Horn: raising awareness and providing valuable insights on the
destructive madvise operations.
Linus Torvalds: assisting in defining system call signature and scope.
Liam R. Howlett: perf optimization.
Theo de Raadt: sharing the experiences and insight gained from
  implementing mimmutable() in OpenBSD.

Finally, the idea that inspired this patch comes from Stephen Röttger's
work in Chrome V8 CFI.

[jeffxu@chromium.org: add branch prediction hint, per Pedro]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240423192825.1273679-2-jeffxu@chromium.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240415163527.626541-3-jeffxu@chromium.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Xu <jeffxu@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLiam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pedro.falcato@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Xu <jeffxu@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Jorge Lucangeli Obes <jorgelo@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pedro.falcato@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Röttger <sroettger@google.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Amer Al Shanawany <amer.shanawany@gmail.com>
Cc: Javier Carrasco <javier.carrasco.cruz@gmail.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 8be7258a)

Conflicts:
   mm/internal.h
   mm/mmap.c

Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Xu <jeffxu@google.com>
Bug: 378595499
Bug: 378498803
Bug: 378382251
Bug: 378401065
Signed-off-by: default avatarKalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Change-Id: Ic7edd75b4bc7d3ff066886b5394517de95586aaa
parent ccf6c0cd
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