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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	security@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ELF: warn if process starts with executable stack
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:51:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191118145114.GA9228@avx2> (raw)

PT_GNU_STACK is fail open design, at least warn people that something
isn't right.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
---

 fs/exec.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -762,6 +762,13 @@ int setup_arg_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
 		goto out_unlock;
 	BUG_ON(prev != vma);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
+	if (vm_flags & VM_EXEC) {
+		pr_warn_once("process '%s'/%u started with executable stack\n",
+			     current->comm, current->pid);
+	}
+#endif
+
 	/* Move stack pages down in memory. */
 	if (stack_shift) {
 		ret = shift_arg_pages(vma, stack_shift);

             reply	other threads:[~2019-11-18 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-18 14:51 Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
2019-11-18 17:13 ` [PATCH] ELF: warn if process starts with executable stack Ben Dooks
2019-11-18 20:54 ` Andrew Morton
2019-11-18 21:36   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2019-11-18 21:52   ` [PATCH] exec: " Alexey Dobriyan
2019-11-19  5:32     ` Dan Carpenter
2019-11-20 19:17     ` Will Deacon
2019-11-20 20:28       ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-11-21  9:38         ` Will Deacon
2019-12-08 16:43           ` Alexey Dobriyan

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