mm/util: Use dedicated slab buckets for memdup_user()
Both memdup_user() and vmemdup_user() handle allocations that are
regularly used for exploiting use-after-free type confusion flaws in
the kernel (e.g. prctl() PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME[1] and setxattr[2][3][4]
respectively).
Since both are designed for contents coming from userspace, it allows
for userspace-controlled allocation sizes. Use a dedicated set of kmalloc
buckets so these allocations do not share caches with the global kmalloc
buckets.
After a fresh boot under Ubuntu 23.10, we can see the caches are already
in active use:
# grep ^memdup /proc/slabinfo
memdup_user-8k 4 4 8192 4 8 : ...
memdup_user-4k 8 8 4096 8 8 : ...
memdup_user-2k 16 16 2048 16 8 : ...
memdup_user-1k 0 0 1024 16 4 : ...
memdup_user-512 0 0 512 16 2 : ...
memdup_user-256 0 0 256 16 1 : ...
memdup_user-128 0 0 128 32 1 : ...
memdup_user-64 256 256 64 64 1 : ...
memdup_user-32 512 512 32 128 1 : ...
memdup_user-16 1024 1024 16 256 1 : ...
memdup_user-8 2048 2048 8 512 1 : ...
memdup_user-192 0 0 192 21 1 : ...
memdup_user-96 168 168 96 42 1 : ...
Link: https://starlabs.sg/blog/2023/07-prctl-anon_vma_name-an-amusing-heap-spray/ [1]
Link: https://duasynt.com/blog/linux-kernel-heap-spray [2]
Link: https://etenal.me/archives/1336 [3]
Link: https://github.com/a13xp0p0v/kernel-hack-drill/blob/master/drill_exploit_uaf.c [4]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "GONG, Ruiqi" <gongruiqi@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Matteo Rizzo <matteorizzo@google.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
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