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Patch series "mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas", v20.
This is an implementation of "secret" mappings backed by a file
descriptor.
The file descriptor backing secret memory mappings is created using a
dedicated memfd_secret system call The desired protection mode for the
memory is configured using flags parameter of the system call. The mmap()
of the file descriptor created with memfd_secret() will create a "secret"
memory mapping. The pages in that mapping will be marked as not present
in the direct map and will be present only in the page table of the owning
mm.
Although normally Linux userspace mappings are protected from other users,
such secret mappings are useful for environments where a hostile tenant is
trying to trick the kernel into giving them access to other tenants
mappings.
It's designed to provide the following protections:
* Enhanced protection (in conjunction with all the other in-kernel
attack prevention systems) against ROP attacks. Seceretmem makes
"simple" ROP insufficient to perform exfiltration, which increases the
required complexity of the attack. Along with other protections like
the kernel stack size limit and address space layout randomization which
make finding gadgets is really hard, absence of any in-kernel primitive
for accessing secret memory means the one gadget ROP attack can't work.
Since the only way to access secret memory is to reconstruct the missing
mapping entry, the attacker has to recover the physical page and insert
a PTE pointing to it in the kernel and then retrieve the contents. That
takes at least three gadgets which is a level of difficulty beyond most
standard attacks.
* Prevent cross-process secret userspace memory exposures. Once the
secret memory is allocated, the user can't accidentally pass it into the
kernel to be transmitted somewhere. The secreremem pages cannot be
accessed via the direct map and they are disallowed in GUP.
* Harden against exploited kernel flaws. In order to access secretmem,
a kernel-side attack would need to either walk the page tables and
create new ones, or spawn a new privileged uiserspace process to perform
secrets exfiltration using ptrace.
In the future the secret mappings may be used as a mean to protect guest
memory in a virtual machine host.
For demonstration of secret memory usage we've created a userspace library
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/secret-memory-preloader.git
that does two things: the first is act as a preloader for openssl to
redirect all the OPENSSL_malloc calls to secret memory meaning any secret
keys get automatically protected this way and the other thing it does is
expose the API to the user who needs it. We anticipate that a lot of the
use cases would be like the openssl one: many toolkits that deal with
secret keys already have special handling for the memory to try to give
them greater protection, so this would simply be pluggable into the
toolkits without any need for user application modification.
Hiding secret memory mappings behind an anonymous file allows usage of the
page cache for tracking pages allocated for the "secret" mappings as well
as using address_space_operations for e.g. page migration callbacks.
The anonymous file may be also used implicitly, like hugetlb files, to
implement mmap(MAP_SECRET) and use the secret memory areas with "native"
mm ABIs in the future.
Removing of the pages from the direct map may cause its fragmentation on
architectures that use large pages to map the physical memory which
affects the system performance. However, the original Kconfig text for
CONFIG_DIRECT_GBPAGES said that gigabyte pages in the direct map "... can
improve the kernel's performance a tiny bit ..." (commit
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| kasan | ||
| kfence | ||
| backing-dev.c | ||
| balloon_compaction.c | ||
| bootmem_info.c | ||
| cleancache.c | ||
| cma.c | ||
| cma.h | ||
| cma_debug.c | ||
| cma_sysfs.c | ||
| compaction.c | ||
| debug.c | ||
| debug_page_ref.c | ||
| debug_vm_pgtable.c | ||
| dmapool.c | ||
| early_ioremap.c | ||
| fadvise.c | ||
| failslab.c | ||
| filemap.c | ||
| frontswap.c | ||
| gup.c | ||
| gup_test.c | ||
| gup_test.h | ||
| highmem.c | ||
| hmm.c | ||
| huge_memory.c | ||
| hugetlb.c | ||
| hugetlb_cgroup.c | ||
| hugetlb_vmemmap.c | ||
| hugetlb_vmemmap.h | ||
| hwpoison-inject.c | ||
| init-mm.c | ||
| internal.h | ||
| interval_tree.c | ||
| io-mapping.c | ||
| ioremap.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Kconfig.debug | ||
| khugepaged.c | ||
| kmemleak.c | ||
| ksm.c | ||
| list_lru.c | ||
| maccess.c | ||
| madvise.c | ||
| Makefile | ||
| mapping_dirty_helpers.c | ||
| memblock.c | ||
| memcontrol.c | ||
| memfd.c | ||
| memory-failure.c | ||
| memory.c | ||
| memory_hotplug.c | ||
| mempolicy.c | ||
| mempool.c | ||
| memremap.c | ||
| memtest.c | ||
| migrate.c | ||
| mincore.c | ||
| mlock.c | ||
| mm_init.c | ||
| mmap.c | ||
| mmap_lock.c | ||
| mmu_gather.c | ||
| mmu_notifier.c | ||
| mmzone.c | ||
| mprotect.c | ||
| mremap.c | ||
| msync.c | ||
| nommu.c | ||
| oom_kill.c | ||
| page-writeback.c | ||
| page_alloc.c | ||
| page_counter.c | ||
| page_ext.c | ||
| page_idle.c | ||
| page_io.c | ||
| page_isolation.c | ||
| page_owner.c | ||
| page_poison.c | ||
| page_reporting.c | ||
| page_reporting.h | ||
| page_vma_mapped.c | ||
| pagewalk.c | ||
| percpu-internal.h | ||
| percpu-km.c | ||
| percpu-stats.c | ||
| percpu-vm.c | ||
| percpu.c | ||
| pgalloc-track.h | ||
| pgtable-generic.c | ||
| process_vm_access.c | ||
| ptdump.c | ||
| readahead.c | ||
| rmap.c | ||
| rodata_test.c | ||
| shmem.c | ||
| shuffle.c | ||
| shuffle.h | ||
| slab.c | ||
| slab.h | ||
| slab_common.c | ||
| slob.c | ||
| slub.c | ||
| sparse-vmemmap.c | ||
| sparse.c | ||
| swap.c | ||
| swap_cgroup.c | ||
| swap_slots.c | ||
| swap_state.c | ||
| swapfile.c | ||
| truncate.c | ||
| usercopy.c | ||
| userfaultfd.c | ||
| util.c | ||
| vmacache.c | ||
| vmalloc.c | ||
| vmpressure.c | ||
| vmscan.c | ||
| vmstat.c | ||
| workingset.c | ||
| z3fold.c | ||
| zbud.c | ||
| zpool.c | ||
| zsmalloc.c | ||
| zswap.c | ||