[PATCH] hardening: Refresh KCFI options, add some more

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Tue Apr 30 14:25:34 PDT 2024


On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 02:15:53PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 10:48:36AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 11:21:40AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 03:29:44PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > 
> > > > - CONFIG_CFI_CLANG=y for x86 and arm64. (And disable FINEIBT since
> > > >   it isn't as secure as straight KCFI.)
> > > 
> > > Oi ?
> > 
> > Same objection I always had[1]: moving the check into the destination
> > means attacks with control over executable memory contents can just omit
> > the check.
> > 
> > But now that I went to go look I see 0c3e806ec0f9 ("x86/cfi: Add boot
> > time hash randomization") is only enabled under FINEIBT... seems better
> > if that were always enabled...
> 
> And FINEIBT actually can't be disabled... :|
> 
> And as it turns out CFI_CLANG doesn't work at all on v6.9...
> 
> [    0.587220] no CFI hash found at: __call_sites+0x339a8/0x34450 ffffffffac20cef8 00 00 00 00 00
> [    0.588226] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:1182 __apply_fineibt+0x7a9/0x820
> ...
> [    0.619220] SMP alternatives: Something went horribly wrong trying to rewrite the CFI implementation.
> *hang*

Welcome to my TED talk.

I'll keep debugging this: boots fine on v6.8, but booting v6.9 with
defconfig+CFI_CLANG _does_ work, so something in my .config broke it...

-- 
Kees Cook



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