From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@gmail.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel-team <kernel-team@fb.com>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] modules: allow modprobe load regular elf binaries
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 19:37:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrWYDfByh7=xiO9T7_fFGMwMvZxUu40bkMdO9HE3E6=1VQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180309.135550.385837861865623769.davem@davemloft.net>
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 6:55 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 10:50:49 -0800
>
>> On 3/9/18 10:23 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>> It might not be totally crazy to back it by tmpfs.
>>
>> interesting. how do you propose to do it?
>> Something like:
>> - create /umh_module_tempxxx dir
>> - mount tmpfs there
>> - copy elf into it and exec it?
>
> I think the idea is that it's an internal tmpfs mount that only
> the kernel has access too.
That's what I was imagining. There's precedent. For example, there's
a very short piece of code that does it in
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gemfs.c.
>
> And I don't think that even hurts your debuggability concerns. The
> user can just attach using the foo.ko file in the actual filesystem.
>
Not if the .ko is actually a shim that actually just contains a blob
and a few lines of code to kick off the umh. But one could still
debug it using kernel debug symbols (like vDSO debugging works right
now, at least if your distro is in a good mood) or by reading the
contents from /proc/PID/exe.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-09 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-06 1:34 [PATCH net-next] modules: allow modprobe load regular elf binaries Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-06 2:13 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-03-06 3:02 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-06 11:05 ` Greg KH
2018-03-07 1:07 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-07 3:24 ` Greg KH
2018-03-06 19:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-06 23:42 ` Chris Mason
2018-05-02 9:12 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-03-06 20:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-06 20:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-07 17:22 ` David Miller
2018-03-08 1:23 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-03-08 23:07 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-09 1:58 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-03-09 0:24 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-09 0:57 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-09 1:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-09 1:25 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-09 1:24 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-09 0:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-09 1:20 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-09 2:12 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-09 2:31 ` David Miller
2018-03-09 3:10 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-09 3:27 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-09 1:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-09 1:44 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-09 3:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-09 3:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-09 3:54 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-09 5:08 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-09 15:16 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-09 15:39 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-09 16:24 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-09 17:32 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-09 18:15 ` Greg KH
2018-03-09 18:23 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-09 18:29 ` Greg KH
2018-03-09 18:50 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-09 18:55 ` David Miller
2018-03-09 19:37 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2018-03-10 1:43 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-11 2:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-09 18:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-09 18:35 ` David Miller
2018-03-09 18:43 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-09 18:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-09 18:54 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-09 18:58 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-12 12:02 ` Edward Cree
2018-03-12 17:49 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-09 18:48 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-09 18:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-09 18:57 ` David Miller
2018-03-09 19:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-09 19:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-09 19:45 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-10 2:34 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-10 14:08 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-03-10 15:16 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-03-10 15:34 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-03-12 17:22 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-13 8:48 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-03-22 20:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-03-22 22:15 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-03-22 22:21 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2018-03-23 2:47 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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