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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: "'Eric W. Biederman'" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v1 0/7] Remove in-tree usage of MAP_DENYWRITE
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 09:05:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b0d7c1e73ca43ef9ce6665fec6c4d7e@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eeay8pqx.fsf@disp2133>

From: Eric W. Biederman
> Sent: 12 August 2021 19:47
...
> So today the best advice I can give to userspace is to mark their
> executables and shared libraries as read-only and immutable.  Otherwise
> a change to the executable file can change what is mapped into memory.
> MAP_PRIVATE does not help.

While 'immutable' might be ok for files installed by distributions
it would be a PITA in development.

ETXTBUSY is a useful reminder that the file you are copying from
machine A to machine B (etc) is still running and probably ought
to be killed/stopped before you get confused.

I've never really understood why it doesn't stop shared libraries
being overwritten - but they do tend to be updated less often.

Overwriting an in-use shared library could be really confusing.
It is likely that all the code is actually in memory.
So everything carries on running as normal.
Until the kernel gets under memory pressure and discards a page.
Then a page from the new version is faulted in and random
programs start getting SEGVs.
This could be days after the borked update.

	David

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-13  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-12  8:43 [PATCH v1 0/7] Remove in-tree usage of MAP_DENYWRITE David Hildenbrand
2021-08-12  8:43 ` [PATCH v1 1/7] binfmt: don't use MAP_DENYWRITE when loading shared libraries via uselib() David Hildenbrand
2021-08-12  8:43 ` [PATCH v1 2/7] kernel/fork: factor out atomcially replacing the current MM exe_file David Hildenbrand
2021-08-12  9:17   ` Christian Brauner
2021-08-12  8:43 ` [PATCH v1 3/7] kernel/fork: always deny write access to " David Hildenbrand
2021-08-12 10:05   ` Christian Brauner
2021-08-12 10:13     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-12 12:32       ` Christian Brauner
2021-08-12 12:38         ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-12 16:51   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-12 19:38     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-12  8:43 ` [PATCH v1 4/7] binfmt: remove in-tree usage of MAP_DENYWRITE David Hildenbrand
2021-08-12  8:43 ` [PATCH v1 5/7] mm: remove VM_DENYWRITE David Hildenbrand
2021-08-12  8:43 ` [PATCH v1 6/7] mm: ignore MAP_DENYWRITE in ksys_mmap_pgoff() David Hildenbrand
2021-08-12  8:43 ` [PATCH v1 7/7] fs: update documentation of get_write_access() and friends David Hildenbrand
2021-08-12 12:20 ` [PATCH v1 0/7] Remove in-tree usage of MAP_DENYWRITE Florian Weimer
2021-08-12 12:47   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-12 16:17   ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-08-12 17:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-08-12 17:35   ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-08-12 17:48     ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-08-12 18:01       ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-08-12 18:10       ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-12 18:47         ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-08-13  9:05           ` David Laight [this message]
     [not found]             ` <87h7ft2j68.fsf@disp2133>
2021-08-13 20:51               ` Florian Weimer
2021-08-14  0:31               ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-14  0:49                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-08-14  0:54                   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-14  0:58                     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-14  1:57                       ` Al Viro
2021-08-14  2:02                         ` Al Viro
2021-08-14  9:06                           ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-14  7:53                         ` Christian Brauner
2021-08-14 19:52                     ` David Laight
2021-08-26 17:48                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-08-26 21:47                       ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-26 22:13                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-08-27  8:22                           ` David Laight
2021-08-27 15:58                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-09-01  8:28                           ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-27 10:18                         ` Christian Brauner
2021-08-14  3:04                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-17 16:48                     ` Removing Mandatory Locks Eric W. Biederman
2021-08-17 16:50                       ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-18  9:34                       ` Rodrigo Campos
2021-08-19 19:18                         ` Jeff Layton
2021-08-19 20:03                           ` Willy Tarreau
2021-08-19 18:39                       ` Jeff Layton
2021-08-19 19:15                         ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-19 19:55                           ` Eric Biggers
2021-08-19 20:18                           ` Jeff Layton
2021-08-19 20:31                             ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-19 21:43                               ` Jeff Layton
2021-08-19 22:32                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-20  8:30                                   ` David Laight
2021-08-23  7:55                                     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-08-23  8:14                                       ` David Laight
2021-08-20 13:43                                   ` Steven Rostedt
2021-08-20 16:06                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-08-20  2:10                               ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-20  6:36                               ` Amir Goldstein
2021-08-20  7:14                                 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-08-20 12:27                                   ` Jeff Layton
2021-08-20 12:38                                     ` Willy Tarreau
2021-08-20 13:03                                       ` Jeff Layton
2021-08-20 13:11                                         ` Willy Tarreau
2021-08-20 16:30                           ` Kees Cook
2021-08-20 19:17                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2021-08-20 21:29                               ` Jeff Layton
2021-08-21 12:45                                 ` Jeff Layton
2021-08-23 22:15                                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-08-20 22:31                               ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-08-18  7:51                     ` [PATCH v1 0/7] Remove in-tree usage of MAP_DENYWRITE Christian Brauner
2021-08-18 15:42                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-08-19 13:56                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-08-19 14:33                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2021-08-20 12:54                         ` Jeff Layton
     [not found]                     ` <162943109106.9892.7426782042253067338@noble.neil.brown.name>
2021-08-20  8:25                       ` David Laight
2021-08-12 19:24         ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-12 18:15       ` Florian Weimer
2021-08-12 18:21         ` Linus Torvalds

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