From 8a43ddfb93a0c6ae1a6e1f5c25705ec5d1843c40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Fellner Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 14:26:50 +0200 Subject: KAISER: Kernel Address Isolation This patch introduces our implementation of KAISER (Kernel Address Isolation to have Side-channels Efficiently Removed), a kernel isolation technique to close hardware side channels on kernel address information. More information about the patch can be found on: https://github.com/IAIK/KAISER From: Richard Fellner From: Daniel Gruss X-Subject: [RFC, PATCH] x86_64: KAISER - do not map kernel in user mode Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 14:26:50 +0200 Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=149390087310405&w=2 Kaiser-4.10-SHA1: c4b1831d44c6144d3762ccc72f0c4e71a0c713e5 To: To: Cc: Cc: Cc: Michael Schwarz Cc: Richard Fellner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Cc: After several recent works [1,2,3] KASLR on x86_64 was basically considered dead by many researchers. We have been working on an efficient but effective fix for this problem and found that not mapping the kernel space when running in user mode is the solution to this problem [4] (the corresponding paper [5] will be presented at ESSoS17). With this RFC patch we allow anybody to configure their kernel with the flag CONFIG_KAISER to add our defense mechanism. If there are any questions we would love to answer them. We also appreciate any comments! Cheers, Daniel (+ the KAISER team from Graz University of Technology) [1] http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/papers/4977a191.pdf [2] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Fogh-Using-Undocumented-CPU-Behaviour-To-See-Into-Kernel-Mode-And-Break-KASLR-In-The-Process.pdf [3] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Jang-Breaking-Kernel-Address-Space-Layout-Randomization-KASLR-With-Intel-TSX.pdf [4] https://github.com/IAIK/KAISER [5] https://gruss.cc/files/kaiser.pdf [patch based also on https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IAIK/KAISER/master/KAISER/0001-KAISER-Kernel-Address-Isolation.patch] Signed-off-by: Richard Fellner Signed-off-by: Moritz Lipp Signed-off-by: Daniel Gruss Signed-off-by: Michael Schwarz Acked-by: Jiri Kosina Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c index 9f7c21c22477..7c5c5dc90ffa 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ * section. Since TSS's are completely CPU-local, we want them * on exact cacheline boundaries, to eliminate cacheline ping-pong. */ -__visible DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct tss_struct, cpu_tss) = { +__visible DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED_USER_MAPPED(struct tss_struct, cpu_tss) = { .x86_tss = { .sp0 = TOP_OF_INIT_STACK, #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 -- cgit v1.2.3