From: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
To: "Mickaël Salaün" <mickael.salaun@ssi.gouv.fr>
Cc: "James Morris" <jmorris@namei.org>,
"Jeff Layton" <jlayton@kernel.org>,
"Florian Weimer" <fweimer@redhat.com>,
"Mickaël Salaün" <mic@digikod.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] fs: Add support for an O_MAYEXEC flag on sys_open()
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 22:28:02 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190909122802.imfx6wp4zeroktuz@yavin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <073cb831-7c6b-1882-9b7d-eb810a2ef955@ssi.gouv.fr>
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On 2019-09-09, Mickaël Salaün <mickael.salaun@ssi.gouv.fr> wrote:
> On 09/09/2019 12:12, James Morris wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> >> As I said, O_MAYEXEC should be ignored if it is not supported by the
> >> kernel, which perfectly fit with the current open(2) flags behavior, and
> >> should also behave the same with openat2(2).
> >
> > The problem here is programs which are already using the value of
> > O_MAYEXEC, which will break. Hence, openat2(2).
>
> Well, it still depends on the sysctl, which doesn't enforce anything by
> default, hence doesn't break existing behavior, and this unused flags
> could be fixed/removed or reported by sysadmins or distro developers.
Okay, but then this means that new programs which really want to enforce
O_MAYEXEC (and know that they really do want this feature) won't be able
to unless an admin has set the relevant sysctl. Not to mention that the
old-kernel fallback will not cover the "it's disabled by the sysctl"
case -- so the fallback handling would need to be:
int fd = open("foo", O_MAYEXEC|O_RDONLY);
if (!(fcntl(fd, F_GETFL) & O_MAYEXEC))
fallback();
if (!sysctl_feature_is_enabled)
fallback();
However, there is still a race here -- if an administrator enables
O_MAYEXEC after the program gets the fd, then you still won't hit the
fallback (and you can't tell that O_MAYEXEC checks weren't done).
You could fix the issue with the sysctl by clearing O_MAYEXEC from
f_flags if the sysctl is disabled. You could also avoid some of the
problems with it being a global setting by making it a prctl(2) which
processes can opt-in to (though this has its own major problems).
Sorry, but I'm just really not a fan of this.
--
Aleksa Sarai
Senior Software Engineer (Containers)
SUSE Linux GmbH
<https://www.cyphar.com/>
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-06 15:24 [PATCH v2 0/5] Add support for O_MAYEXEC Mickaël Salaün
2019-09-06 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] fs: Add support for an O_MAYEXEC flag on sys_open() Mickaël Salaün
2019-09-06 15:56 ` Florian Weimer
2019-09-06 16:06 ` Mickaël Salaün
2019-09-06 16:48 ` Jeff Layton
2019-09-06 17:13 ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-06 19:43 ` Jeff Layton
2019-09-06 20:06 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-09-06 20:51 ` Jeff Layton
2019-09-06 21:27 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-09-06 22:12 ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-09 9:33 ` Mickaël Salaün
2019-09-06 22:05 ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-06 22:18 ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-06 17:14 ` Mickaël Salaün
2019-09-06 18:38 ` Jeff Layton
2019-09-06 18:41 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-09-09 9:18 ` Mickaël Salaün
2019-09-09 15:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-09-06 18:44 ` Florian Weimer
2019-09-06 19:03 ` James Morris
2019-09-09 9:25 ` Mickaël Salaün
2019-09-09 10:12 ` James Morris
2019-09-09 10:54 ` Mickaël Salaün
2019-09-09 12:28 ` Aleksa Sarai [this message]
2019-09-09 12:33 ` Mickaël Salaün
2019-09-09 11:54 ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-09 12:28 ` Mickaël Salaün
2019-09-06 17:07 ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-06 17:20 ` Christian Brauner
2019-09-06 17:24 ` Mickaël Salaün
2019-09-06 17:40 ` Tycho Andersen
2019-09-06 18:27 ` Florian Weimer
2019-09-06 18:46 ` Tycho Andersen
2019-09-06 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] fs: Add a MAY_EXECMOUNT flag to infer the noexec mount propertie Mickaël Salaün
2019-09-06 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] fs: Enable to enforce noexec mounts or file exec through O_MAYEXEC Mickaël Salaün
2019-09-06 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] selftest/exec: Add tests for O_MAYEXEC enforcing Mickaël Salaün
2019-09-06 15:24 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] doc: Add documentation for the fs.open_mayexec_enforce sysctl Mickaël Salaün
2019-09-06 18:50 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Add support for O_MAYEXEC Steve Grubb
2019-09-06 18:57 ` Florian Weimer
2019-09-06 19:07 ` Steve Grubb
2019-09-06 19:26 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-09-06 22:44 ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-09 9:09 ` Mickaël Salaün
2019-09-09 0:16 ` James Morris
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