ARM: move vector stubs
Move the machine vector stubs into the page above the vector page,
which we can prevent from being visible to userspace. Also move
the reset stub, and place the swi vector at a location that the
'ldr' can get to it.
This hides pointers into the kernel which could give valuable
information to attackers, and reduces the number of exploitable
instructions at a fixed address.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
index 0243734..79a41fa 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
@@ -944,9 +944,9 @@
/*
* Vector stubs.
*
- * This code is copied to 0xffff0200 so we can use branches in the
- * vectors, rather than ldr's. Note that this code must not
- * exceed 0x300 bytes.
+ * This code is copied to 0xffff1000 so we can use branches in the
+ * vectors, rather than ldr's. Note that this code must not exceed
+ * a page size.
*
* Common stub entry macro:
* Enter in IRQ mode, spsr = SVC/USR CPSR, lr = SVC/USR PC
@@ -995,6 +995,15 @@
.globl __stubs_start
__stubs_start:
+ @ This must be the first word
+ .word vector_swi
+
+vector_rst:
+ ARM( swi SYS_ERROR0 )
+ THUMB( svc #0 )
+ THUMB( nop )
+ b vector_und
+
/*
* Interrupt dispatcher
*/
@@ -1089,6 +1098,16 @@
.align 5
/*=============================================================================
+ * Address exception handler
+ *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * These aren't too critical.
+ * (they're not supposed to happen, and won't happen in 32-bit data mode).
+ */
+
+vector_addrexcptn:
+ b vector_addrexcptn
+
+/*=============================================================================
* Undefined FIQs
*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Enter in FIQ mode, spsr = ANY CPSR, lr = ANY PC
@@ -1101,35 +1120,14 @@
vector_fiq:
subs pc, lr, #4
-/*=============================================================================
- * Address exception handler
- *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * These aren't too critical.
- * (they're not supposed to happen, and won't happen in 32-bit data mode).
- */
-
-vector_addrexcptn:
- b vector_addrexcptn
-
-/*
- * We group all the following data together to optimise
- * for CPUs with separate I & D caches.
- */
- .align 5
-
-.LCvswi:
- .word vector_swi
-
.globl __stubs_end
__stubs_end:
- .equ stubs_offset, __vectors_start + 0x200 - __stubs_start
+ .equ stubs_offset, __vectors_start + 0x1000 - __stubs_start
.globl __vectors_start
__vectors_start:
- ARM( swi SYS_ERROR0 )
- THUMB( svc #0 )
- THUMB( nop )
+ W(b) vector_rst + stubs_offset
W(b) vector_und + stubs_offset
W(ldr) pc, .LCvswi + stubs_offset
W(b) vector_pabt + stubs_offset