On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 04:04:50PM +0000, jeffxu@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Jeff Xu <jeffxu@xxxxxxxxxx> > > The new MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL and MFD_EXEC flags allows application to > set executable bit at creation time (memfd_create). > > When MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL is set, memfd is created without executable bit > (mode:0666), and sealed with F_SEAL_EXEC, so it can't be chmod to > be executable (mode: 0777) after creation. > > when MFD_EXEC flag is set, memfd is created with executable bit > (mode:0777), this is the same as the old behavior of memfd_create. > > The new pid namespaced sysctl vm.memfd_noexec has 3 values: > 0: memfd_create() without MFD_EXEC nor MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL acts like > MFD_EXEC was set. > 1: memfd_create() without MFD_EXEC nor MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL acts like > MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL was set. > 2: memfd_create() without MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL will be rejected. > > The sysctl allows finer control of memfd_create for old-software > that doesn't set the executable bit, for example, a container with > vm.memfd_noexec=1 means the old-software will create non-executable > memfd by default. Also, the value of memfd_noexec is passed to child > namespace at creation time. For example, if the init namespace has > vm.memfd_noexec=2, all its children namespaces will be created with 2. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Xu <jeffxu@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Kees Cook