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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Cc: "Florian Weimer" <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	"Mickaël Salaün" <mic@digikod.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Add support for O_MAYEXEC
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 12:26:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C95B704C-F84F-4341-BDE7-CD70C5DDBEEF@amacapital.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1802966.yheqmZt8Si@x2>



> On Sep 6, 2019, at 12:07 PM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Friday, September 6, 2019 2:57:00 PM EDT Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Steve Grubb:
>>> Now with LD_AUDIT
>>> $ LD_AUDIT=/home/sgrubb/test/openflags/strip-flags.so.0 strace ./test
>>> 2>&1 | grep passwd openat(3, "passwd", O_RDONLY)           = 4
>>> 
>>> No O_CLOEXEC flag.
>> 
>> I think you need to explain in detail why you consider this a problem.
> 
> Because you can strip the O_MAYEXEC flag from being passed into the kernel. 
> Once you do that, you defeat the security mechanism because it never gets 
> invoked. The issue is that the only thing that knows _why_ something is being 
> opened is user space. With this mechanism, you can attempt to pass this 
> reason to the kernel so that it may see if policy permits this. But you can 
> just remove the flag.

I’m with Florian here. Once you are executing code in a process, you could just emulate some other unapproved code. This series is not intended to provide the kind of absolute protection you’re imagining.

What the kernel *could* do is prevent mmapping a non-FMODE_EXEC file with PROT_EXEC, which would indeed have a real effect (in an iOS-like world, for example) but would break many, many things.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-06 19:26 UTC|newest]

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
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 [this message]
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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