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| author | David Hildenbrand | 2021-04-23 09:42:41 +0200 |
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| committer | David Hildenbrand | 2021-09-03 18:42:01 +0200 |
| commit | 4589ff7ca81516381393649dec8dd4948884b2b2 (patch) | |
| tree | 4bc5abab9bb7293f60d8b46dea87fb8e4097ae98 /arch | |
| parent | fe69d560b5bd9ec77b5d5749bd7027344daef47e (diff) | |
binfmt: remove in-tree usage of MAP_DENYWRITE
At exec time when we mmap the new executable via MAP_DENYWRITE we have it
opened via do_open_execat() and already deny_write_access()'ed the file
successfully. Once exec completes, we allow_write_acces(); however,
we set mm->exe_file in begin_new_exec() via set_mm_exe_file() and
also deny_write_access() as long as mm->exe_file remains set. We'll
effectively deny write access to our executable via mm->exe_file
until mm->exe_file is changed -- when the process is removed, on new
exec, or via sys_prctl(PR_SET_MM_MAP/EXE_FILE).
Let's remove all usage of MAP_DENYWRITE, it's no longer necessary for
mm->exe_file.
In case of an elf interpreter, we'll now only deny write access to the file
during exec. This is somewhat okay, because the interpreter behaves
(and sometime is) a shared library; all shared libraries, especially the
ones loaded directly in user space like via dlopen() won't ever be mapped
via MAP_DENYWRITE, because we ignore that from user space completely;
these shared libraries can always be modified while mapped and executed.
Let's only special-case the main executable, denying write access while
being executed by a process. This can be considered a minor user space
visible change.
While this is a cleanup, it also fixes part of a problem reported with
VM_DENYWRITE on overlayfs, as VM_DENYWRITE is effectively unused with
this patch and will be removed next:
"Overlayfs did not honor positive i_writecount on realfile for
VM_DENYWRITE mappings." [1]
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/YNHXzBgzRrZu1MrD@miu.piliscsaba.redhat.com/
Reported-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@mykernel.net>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.c b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.c index 321d7b22ad2d..9bd15241fadb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.c +++ b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.c @@ -202,8 +202,7 @@ static int load_aout_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm) error = vm_mmap(bprm->file, N_TXTADDR(ex), ex.a_text, PROT_READ | PROT_EXEC, - MAP_FIXED | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_DENYWRITE | - MAP_32BIT, + MAP_FIXED | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_32BIT, fd_offset); if (error != N_TXTADDR(ex)) @@ -211,8 +210,7 @@ static int load_aout_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm) error = vm_mmap(bprm->file, N_DATADDR(ex), ex.a_data, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC, - MAP_FIXED | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_DENYWRITE | - MAP_32BIT, + MAP_FIXED | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_32BIT, fd_offset + ex.a_text); if (error != N_DATADDR(ex)) return error; |