From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
ellyjones@chromium.org, Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>,
Roland Eggner <edvx1@systemanalysen.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] devtmpfs: mount with noexec and nosuid
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:05:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121121000510.7a3c6673@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121120215059.GA1859@www.outflux.net>
> +config DEVTMPFS_SAFE
> + bool "Use nosuid,noexec mount options on devtmpfs"
> + depends on DEVTMPFS
> + help
> + This instructs the kernel to include the MS_NOEXEC and
> + MS_NOSUID mount flags when mounting devtmpfs. This prevents
> + certain kinds of code-execution attacks on embedded platforms.
This description appears to be wrong as well as the code being pointless.
It doesn't prevent any meaningful code execution attacks and the config
entry might give people the delusion its useful or a security feature.
Please provide a valid and meaningful example.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-20 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-20 21:50 [PATCH v3] devtmpfs: mount with noexec and nosuid Kees Cook
2012-11-21 0:05 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-11-21 0:17 ` Kees Cook
2012-11-21 0:29 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-21 6:44 ` Roland Eggner
2012-11-21 12:42 ` Alan Cox
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