From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:46:23 +0100 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH 0/3] exec: Pin stack limit during exec Message-ID: <20180220134623.GA21134@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <1518638796-20819-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1518638796-20819-1-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org> To: Kees Cook Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Ben Hutchings , Willy Tarreau , Hugh Dickins , Oleg Nesterov , "Jason A. Donenfeld" , Rik van Riel , Laura Abbott , Greg KH , Andy Lutomirski , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com List-ID: On Wed 14-02-18 12:06:33, Kees Cook wrote: > Attempts to solve problems with the stack limit changing during exec > continue to be frustrated[1][2]. In addition to the specific issues around > the Stack Clash family of flaws, Andy Lutomirski pointed out[3] other > places during exec where the stack limit is used and is assumed to be > unchanging. Given the many places it gets used and the fact that it can be > manipulated/raced via setrlimit() and prlimit(), I think the only way to > handle this is to move away from the "current" view of the stack limit and > instead attach it to the bprm, and plumb this down into the functions that > need to know the stack limits. This series implements the approach. > > Neither I nor 0-day have found issues with this series, so I'd like to > get it into -mm for further testing. Sorry, for the late response. All three patches make sense to me. finalize_exec could see a much better documentation and explain what is the semantic. Anyway, feel free to add Acked-by: Michal Hocko -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs