ARM: move signal handlers into a vdso-like page

Move the signal handlers into a VDSO page rather than keeping them in
the vectors page.  This allows us to place them randomly within this
page, and also map the page at a random location within userspace
further protecting these code fragments from ROP attacks.  The new
VDSO page is also poisoned in the same way as the vector page.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Russell King
2013-07-24 00:29:18 +01:00
parent f6f91b0d9f
commit 48be69a026
6 changed files with 87 additions and 31 deletions
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@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@
#include <asm/tls.h>
#include <asm/system_misc.h>
#include "signal.h"
static const char *handler[]= { "prefetch abort", "data abort", "address exception", "interrupt" };
void *vectors_page;
@@ -850,13 +848,6 @@ void __init early_trap_init(void *vectors_base)
kuser_init(vectors_base);
/*
* Copy signal return handlers into the vector page, and
* set sigreturn to be a pointer to these.
*/
memcpy((void *)(vectors + KERN_SIGRETURN_CODE - CONFIG_VECTORS_BASE),
sigreturn_codes, sizeof(sigreturn_codes));
flush_icache_range(vectors, vectors + PAGE_SIZE * 2);
modify_domain(DOMAIN_USER, DOMAIN_CLIENT);
#else /* ifndef CONFIG_CPU_V7M */