It allows a process to request that stack gap was not applied to its
stacks, retroactively. Also it is possible to control the gaps in the
process after exec.
PR: 239894
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21352
feature bit.
In particular, allocate the bit to opt-out the image from implicit
PROTMAX enablement. Provide procctl(2) verbs to set and query
implicit PROTMAX handling. The knobs mimic the same per-image flag
and per-process controls for ASLR.
Reviewed by: emaste, markj (previous version)
Discussed with: brooks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20795
Add the infrastructure to allow MD procctl(2) commands, and use it to
introduce amd64 PTI control and reporting. PTI mode cannot be
modified for existing pmap, the knob controls PTI of the new vmspace
created on exec.
Requested by: jhb
Reviewed by: jhb, markj (previous version)
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19514
With this change, randomization can be enabled for all non-fixed
mappings. It means that the base address for the mapping is selected
with a guaranteed amount of entropy (bits). If the mapping was
requested to be superpage aligned, the randomization honours the
superpage attributes.
Although the value of ASLR is diminshing over time as exploit authors
work out simple ASLR bypass techniques, it elimintates the trivial
exploitation of certain vulnerabilities, at least in theory. This
implementation is relatively small and happens at the correct
architectural level. Also, it is not expected to introduce
regressions in existing cases when turned off (default for now), or
cause any significant maintaince burden.
The randomization is done on a best-effort basis - that is, the
allocator falls back to a first fit strategy if fragmentation prevents
entropy injection. It is trivial to implement a strong mode where
failure to guarantee the requested amount of entropy results in
mapping request failure, but I do not consider that to be usable.
I have not fine-tuned the amount of entropy injected right now. It is
only a quantitive change that will not change the implementation. The
current amount is controlled by aslr_pages_rnd.
To not spoil coalescing optimizations, to reduce the page table
fragmentation inherent to ASLR, and to keep the transient superpage
promotion for the malloced memory, locality clustering is implemented
for anonymous private mappings, which are automatically grouped until
fragmentation kicks in. The initial location for the anon group range
is, of course, randomized. This is controlled by vm.cluster_anon,
enabled by default.
The default mode keeps the sbrk area unpopulated by other mappings,
but this can be turned off, which gives much more breathing bits on
architectures with small address space, such as i386. This is tied
with the question of following an application's hint about the mmap(2)
base address. Testing shows that ignoring the hint does not affect the
function of common applications, but I would expect more demanding
code could break. By default sbrk is preserved and mmap hints are
satisfied, which can be changed by using the
kern.elf{32,64}.aslr.honor_sbrk sysctl.
ASLR is enabled on per-ABI basis, and currently it is only allowed on
FreeBSD native i386 and amd64 (including compat 32bit) ABIs. Support
for additional architectures will be added after further testing.
Both per-process and per-image controls are implemented:
- procctl(2) adds PROC_ASLR_CTL/PROC_ASLR_STATUS;
- NT_FREEBSD_FCTL_ASLR_DISABLE feature control note bit makes it possible
to force ASLR off for the given binary. (A tool to edit the feature
control note is in development.)
Global controls are:
- kern.elf{32,64}.aslr.enable - for non-fixed mappings done by mmap(2);
- kern.elf{32,64}.aslr.pie_enable - for PIE image activation mappings;
- kern.elf{32,64}.aslr.honor_sbrk - allow to use sbrk area for mmap(2);
- vm.cluster_anon - enables anon mapping clustering.
PR: 208580 (exp runs)
Exp-runs done by: antoine
Reviewed by: markj (previous version)
Discussed with: emaste
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5603
-> PROC_PDEATHSIG_STATUS for consistency with other procctl(2)
operations names.
Requested by: emaste
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 13 days
Allow processes to request the delivery of a signal upon death of
their parent process. Supposed consumer of the feature is PostgreSQL.
Submitted by: Thomas Munro
Reviewed by: jilles, mjg
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15106
Both can be used to cause processes in capability mode to receive
SIGTRAP when ENOTCAPABLE or ECAPMODE errors are returned from
syscalls.
Idea by: emaste
Reviewed by: oshogbo (previous version), emaste
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7965
having some children, the children' reaper is not reset to the parent.
This allows for the situation where reaper has children but not
descendands and the too strict asserts in the reap_status() fire.
Remove the wrong asserts, add some clarification for the situation to
the procctl(2) REAP_STATUS.
Reported and tested by: feld
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
children. Handle the situation instead asserting that it is
impossible.
Reported and tested by: emaste
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 days
attachment to the process. Note that the command is not intended to
be a security measure, rather it is an obfuscation feature,
implemented for parity with other operating systems.
Discussed with: jilles, rwatson
Man page fixes by: rwatson
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
the orphaned descendants. Base of the API is modelled after the same
feature from the DragonFlyBSD.
Requested by: bapt
Reviewed by: jilles (previous version)
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 weeks
