Attacks against vulnerable userspace applications with the purpose to break
ASLR or bypass canaries traditionally use some level of brute force with
the help of the fork system call. This is possible since when creating a
new process using fork its memory contents are the same as those of the
parent process (the process that called the fork system call). So, the
attacker can test the memory infinite times to find the correct memory
values or the correct memory addresses without worrying about crashing the
application.
Based on the above scenario it would be nice to have this detected and
mitigated, and this is the goal of this patch serie. Specifically the
following attacks are expected to be detected:
1.- Launching (fork()/exec()) a setuid/setgid process repeatedly until a
desirable memory layout is got (e.g. Stack Clash).
2.- Connecting to an exec()ing network daemon (e.g. xinetd) repeatedly
until a desirable memory layout is got (e.g. what CTFs do for simple
network service).
3.- Launching processes without exec() (e.g. Android Zygote) and exposing
state to attack a sibling.
4.- Connecting to a fork()ing network daemon (e.g. apache) repeatedly until
the previously shared memory layout of all the other children is
exposed (e.g. kind of related to HeartBleed).
In each case, a privilege boundary has been crossed:
Case 1: setuid/setgid process
Case 2: network to local
Case 3: privilege changes
Case 4: network to local
So, what will really be detected are fork/exec brute force attacks that
cross any of the commented bounds.
The implementation details and comparison against other existing
implementations can be found in the "Documentation" patch.
Knowing all this information I will explain now the different patches:
The 1/8 patch defines a new LSM hook to get the fatal signal of a task.
This will be useful during the attack detection phase.
The 2/8 patch defines a new LSM and manages the statistical data shared by
all the fork hierarchy processes.
The 3/8 patch detects a fork/exec brute force attack.
The 4/8 patch narrows the detection taken into account the privilege
boundary crossing.
The 5/8 patch mitigates a brute force attack.
The 6/8 patch adds self-tests to validate the Brute LSM expectations.
The 7/8 patch adds the documentation to explain this implementation.
The 8/8 patch updates the maintainers file.
This patch serie is a task of the KSPP [1] and can also be accessed from my
github tree [2] in the "brute_v6" branch.
[1] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/39
[2] https://github.com/johwood/linux/
The previous versions can be found in:
RFC
https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-hardening/20200910202107.3799376-1-keescook@…
Version 2
https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-hardening/20201025134540.3770-1-john.wood@gm…
Version 3
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210221154919.68050-1-john.wood@gmx.com/
Version 4
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210227150956.6022-1-john.wood@gmx.com/
Version 5
https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-hardening/20210227153013.6747-1-john.wood@gm…
Changelog RFC -> v2
-------------------
- Rename this feature with a more suitable name (Jann Horn, Kees Cook).
- Convert the code to an LSM (Kees Cook).
- Add locking to avoid data races (Jann Horn).
- Add a new LSM hook to get the fatal signal of a task (Jann Horn, Kees
Cook).
- Add the last crashes timestamps list to avoid false positives in the
attack detection (Jann Horn).
- Use "period" instead of "rate" (Jann Horn).
- Other minor changes suggested (Jann Horn, Kees Cook).
Changelog v2 -> v3
------------------
- Compute the application crash period on an on-going basis (Kees Cook).
- Detect a brute force attack through the execve system call (Kees Cook).
- Detect an slow brute force attack (Randy Dunlap).
- Fine tuning the detection taken into account privilege boundary crossing
(Kees Cook).
- Taken into account only fatal signals delivered by the kernel (Kees
Cook).
- Remove the sysctl attributes to fine tuning the detection (Kees Cook).
- Remove the prctls to allow per process enabling/disabling (Kees Cook).
- Improve the documentation (Kees Cook).
- Fix some typos in the documentation (Randy Dunlap).
- Add self-test to validate the expectations (Kees Cook).
Changelog v3 -> v4
------------------
- Fix all the warnings shown by the tool "scripts/kernel-doc" (Randy
Dunlap).
Changelog v4 -> v5
------------------
- Fix some typos (Randy Dunlap).
Changelog v5 -> v6
------------------
- Fix a reported deadlock (kernel test robot).
- Add high level details to the documentation (Andi Kleen).
Any constructive comments are welcome.
Thanks.
John Wood (8):
security: Add LSM hook at the point where a task gets a fatal signal
security/brute: Define a LSM and manage statistical data
securtiy/brute: Detect a brute force attack
security/brute: Fine tuning the attack detection
security/brute: Mitigate a brute force attack
selftests/brute: Add tests for the Brute LSM
Documentation: Add documentation for the Brute LSM
MAINTAINERS: Add a new entry for the Brute LSM
Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Brute.rst | 278 ++++++
Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/index.rst | 1 +
MAINTAINERS | 7 +
include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h | 1 +
include/linux/lsm_hooks.h | 4 +
include/linux/security.h | 4 +
kernel/signal.c | 1 +
security/Kconfig | 11 +-
security/Makefile | 4 +
security/brute/Kconfig | 13 +
security/brute/Makefile | 2 +
security/brute/brute.c | 1107 ++++++++++++++++++++++
security/security.c | 5 +
tools/testing/selftests/Makefile | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/brute/.gitignore | 2 +
tools/testing/selftests/brute/Makefile | 5 +
tools/testing/selftests/brute/config | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/brute/exec.c | 44 +
tools/testing/selftests/brute/test.c | 507 ++++++++++
tools/testing/selftests/brute/test.sh | 226 +++++
20 files changed, 2219 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Brute.rst
create mode 100644 security/brute/Kconfig
create mode 100644 security/brute/Makefile
create mode 100644 security/brute/brute.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/brute/.gitignore
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/brute/Makefile
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/brute/config
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/brute/exec.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/brute/test.c
create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/brute/test.sh
--
2.25.1
sched.h has been included at line 33, so remove the
duplicate one at line 36.
inttypes.h has been included at line 19, so remove the
duplicate one at line 23.
pthread.h has been included at line 17,so remove the
duplicate one at line 20.
Signed-off-by: Wan Jiabing <wanjiabing(a)vivo.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mm/tlbie_test.c | 1 -
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-poison.c | 1 -
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-vmx-unavail.c | 1 -
3 files changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mm/tlbie_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mm/tlbie_test.c
index f85a0938ab25..48344a74b212 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mm/tlbie_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mm/tlbie_test.c
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
#include <sched.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
-#include <sched.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <sys/prctl.h>
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-poison.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-poison.c
index 29e5f26af7b9..27c083a03d1f 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-poison.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-poison.c
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
#include <sched.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <signal.h>
-#include <inttypes.h>
#include "tm.h"
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-vmx-unavail.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-vmx-unavail.c
index e2a0c07e8362..9ef37a9836ac 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-vmx-unavail.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-vmx-unavail.c
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
#include <pthread.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <unistd.h>
-#include <pthread.h>
#include "tm.h"
#include "utils.h"
--
2.25.1
This fix is analogous to Peter Xu's fix for hugetlb [0]. If we don't
put_page() after getting the page out of the page cache, we leak the
reference.
The fix can be verified by checking /proc/meminfo and running the
userfaultfd selftest in shmem mode. Without the fix, we see MemFree /
MemAvailable steadily decreasing with each run of the test. With the
fix, memory is correctly freed after the test program exits.
Fixes: 00da60b9d0a0 ("userfaultfd: support minor fault handling for shmem")
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen(a)google.com>
---
mm/shmem.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index ef8c9f5e92fc..d2e0e81b7d2e 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1831,6 +1831,7 @@ static int shmem_getpage_gfp(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
if (page && vma && userfaultfd_minor(vma)) {
unlock_page(page);
+ put_page(page);
*fault_type = handle_userfault(vmf, VM_UFFD_MINOR);
return 0;
}
--
2.31.0.rc2.261.g7f71774620-goog
string.h has been included at line 15.So we remove the
duplicate one at line 17.
Signed-off-by: Wan Jiabing <wanjiabing(a)vivo.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/mincore/mincore_selftest.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mincore/mincore_selftest.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mincore/mincore_selftest.c
index 5a1e85ff5d32..e54106643337 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mincore/mincore_selftest.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mincore/mincore_selftest.c
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
-#include <string.h>
#include "../kselftest.h"
#include "../kselftest_harness.h"
--
2.25.1
The perf subsystem today unifies various tracing and monitoring
features, from both software and hardware. One benefit of the perf
subsystem is automatically inheriting events to child tasks, which
enables process-wide events monitoring with low overheads. By default
perf events are non-intrusive, not affecting behaviour of the tasks
being monitored.
For certain use-cases, however, it makes sense to leverage the
generality of the perf events subsystem and optionally allow the tasks
being monitored to receive signals on events they are interested in.
This patch series adds the option to synchronously signal user space on
events.
To better support process-wide synchronous self-monitoring, without
events propagating to children that do not share the current process's
shared environment, two pre-requisite patches are added to optionally
restrict inheritance to CLONE_THREAD, and remove events on exec (without
affecting the parent).
Examples how to use these features can be found in the two kselftests at
the end of the series. The kselftests verify and stress test the basic
functionality.
The discussion at [1] led to the changes proposed in this series. The
approach taken in patch "Add support for SIGTRAP on perf events" to use
'event_limit' to trigger the signal was kindly suggested by Peter
Zijlstra in [2].
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CACT4Y+YPrXGw+AtESxAgPyZ84TYkNZdP0xpocX2jwVAbZ…
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YBv3rAT566k+6zjg@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.n…
Motivation and example uses:
1. Our immediate motivation is low-overhead sampling-based race
detection for user space [3]. By using perf_event_open() at
process initialization, we can create hardware
breakpoint/watchpoint events that are propagated automatically
to all threads in a process. As far as we are aware, today no
existing kernel facility (such as ptrace) allows us to set up
process-wide watchpoints with minimal overheads (that are
comparable to mprotect() of whole pages).
[3] https://llvm.org/devmtg/2020-09/slides/Morehouse-GWP-Tsan.pdf
2. Other low-overhead error detectors that rely on detecting
accesses to certain memory locations or code, process-wide and
also only in a specific set of subtasks or threads.
Other ideas for use-cases we found interesting, but should only
illustrate the range of potential to further motivate the utility (we're
sure there are more):
3. Code hot patching without full stop-the-world. Specifically, by
setting a code breakpoint to entry to the patched routine, then
send signals to threads and check that they are not in the
routine, but without stopping them further. If any of the
threads will enter the routine, it will receive SIGTRAP and
pause.
4. Safepoints without mprotect(). Some Java implementations use
"load from a known memory location" as a safepoint. When threads
need to be stopped, the page containing the location is
mprotect()ed and threads get a signal. This could be replaced with
a watchpoint, which does not require a whole page nor DTLB
shootdowns.
5. Threads receiving signals on performance events to
throttle/unthrottle themselves.
6. Tracking data flow globally.
---
v2:
* Patch "Support only inheriting events if cloned with CLONE_THREAD"
added to series.
* Patch "Add support for event removal on exec" added to series.
* Patch "Add kselftest for process-wide sigtrap handling" added to
series.
* Patch "Add kselftest for remove_on_exec" added to series.
* Implicitly restrict inheriting events if sigtrap, but the child was
cloned with CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND, because it is not generally safe if
the child cleared all signal handlers to continue sending SIGTRAP.
* Various minor fixes (see details in patches).
v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210223143426.2412737-1-elver@google.com
Marco Elver (8):
perf/core: Apply PERF_EVENT_IOC_MODIFY_ATTRIBUTES to children
perf/core: Support only inheriting events if cloned with CLONE_THREAD
perf/core: Add support for event removal on exec
signal: Introduce TRAP_PERF si_code and si_perf to siginfo
perf/core: Add support for SIGTRAP on perf events
perf/core: Add breakpoint information to siginfo on SIGTRAP
selftests/perf: Add kselftest for process-wide sigtrap handling
selftests/perf: Add kselftest for remove_on_exec
arch/m68k/kernel/signal.c | 3 +
arch/x86/kernel/signal_compat.c | 5 +-
fs/signalfd.c | 4 +
include/linux/compat.h | 2 +
include/linux/perf_event.h | 5 +-
include/linux/signal.h | 1 +
include/uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h | 6 +-
include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 5 +-
include/uapi/linux/signalfd.h | 4 +-
kernel/events/core.c | 130 ++++++++-
kernel/fork.c | 2 +-
kernel/signal.c | 11 +
.../testing/selftests/perf_events/.gitignore | 3 +
tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/Makefile | 6 +
tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/config | 1 +
.../selftests/perf_events/remove_on_exec.c | 256 ++++++++++++++++++
tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/settings | 1 +
.../selftests/perf_events/sigtrap_threads.c | 202 ++++++++++++++
18 files changed, 632 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/.gitignore
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/Makefile
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/config
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/remove_on_exec.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/settings
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/perf_events/sigtrap_threads.c
--
2.30.1.766.gb4fecdf3b7-goog