Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, this adds object size checking to the
SLUB allocator to catch any copies that may span objects.
Based on code from PaX and grsecurity.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
---
init/Kconfig | 1 +
mm/slub.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 798c2020ee7c..1c4711819dfd 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1765,6 +1765,7 @@ config SLAB
config SLUB
bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
+ select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
help
SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 825ff4505336..0c8ace04f075 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -3614,6 +3614,33 @@ void *__kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmalloc_node);
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY
+/*
+ * Rejects objects that are incorrectly sized.
+ *
+ * Returns NULL if check passes, otherwise const char * to name of cache
+ * to indicate an error.
+ */
+const char *__check_heap_object(const void *ptr, unsigned long n,
+ struct page *page)
+{
+ struct kmem_cache *s;
+ unsigned long offset;
+
+ /* Find object. */
+ s = page->slab_cache;
+
+ /* Find offset within object. */
+ offset = (ptr - page_address(page)) % s->size;
+
+ /* Allow address range falling entirely within object size. */
+ if (offset <= s->object_size && n <= s->object_size - offset)
+ return NULL;
+
+ return s->name;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY */
+
static size_t __ksize(const void *object)
{
struct page *page;
--
2.7.4
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