On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 10:43:34AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Kees Cook: > > > Maybe I've missed some earlier discussion that ruled this out, but I > > couldn't find it: let's just add O_EXEC and be done with it. It actually > > makes the execve() path more like openat2() and is much cleaner after > > a little refactoring. Here are the results, though I haven't emailed it > > yet since I still want to do some more testing: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/log/?h=kspp/o_exec/v1 > > I think POSIX specifies O_EXEC in such a way that it does not confer > read permissions. This seems incompatible with what we are trying to > achieve here. I was trying to retain this behavior, since we already make this distinction between execve() and uselib() with the MAY_* flags: execve(): struct open_flags open_exec_flags = { .open_flag = O_LARGEFILE | O_RDONLY | __FMODE_EXEC, .acc_mode = MAY_EXEC, uselib(): static const struct open_flags uselib_flags = { .open_flag = O_LARGEFILE | O_RDONLY | __FMODE_EXEC, .acc_mode = MAY_READ | MAY_EXEC, I tried to retain this in my proposal, in the O_EXEC does not imply MAY_READ: + /* Should execution permissions be checked on open? */ + if (flags & O_EXEC) { + flags |= __FMODE_EXEC; + acc_mode |= MAY_EXEC; + } -- Kees Cook