Re: [PATCH v7 3/6] mm/memfd: add MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL and MFD_EXEC

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On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 10:39 AM SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> > 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>
> > Co-developed-by: Daniel Verkamp <dverkamp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Verkamp <dverkamp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> [...]
> > diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
> > index f4f8cb0435b4..8a98b1af9376 100644
> > --- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c
> > +++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
> > @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
> >  #include <linux/sched/task.h>
> >  #include <linux/sched/signal.h>
> >  #include <linux/idr.h>
> > +#include "pid_sysctl.h"
> >
> >  static DEFINE_MUTEX(pid_caches_mutex);
> >  static struct kmem_cache *pid_ns_cachep;
> > @@ -110,6 +111,8 @@ static struct pid_namespace *create_pid_namespace(struct user_namespace *user_ns
> >       ns->ucounts = ucounts;
> >       ns->pid_allocated = PIDNS_ADDING;
> >
> > +     initialize_memfd_noexec_scope(ns);
> > +
> >       return ns;
> >
> >  out_free_idr:
> > @@ -455,6 +458,8 @@ static __init int pid_namespaces_init(void)
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
> >       register_sysctl_paths(kern_path, pid_ns_ctl_table);
> >  #endif
> > +
> > +     register_pid_ns_sysctl_table_vm();
> >       return 0;
> >  }
> [...]
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/pid_sysctl.h b/kernel/pid_sysctl.h
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..90a93161a122
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/kernel/pid_sysctl.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
> > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> > +#ifndef LINUX_PID_SYSCTL_H
> > +#define LINUX_PID_SYSCTL_H
> > +
> > +#include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
> > +
> > +#if defined(CONFIG_SYSCTL) && defined(CONFIG_MEMFD_CREATE)
> > +static inline void initialize_memfd_noexec_scope(struct pid_namespace *ns)
> [...]
> > +static inline void register_pid_ns_sysctl_table_vm(void)
> > +{
> > +     register_sysctl_paths(vm_path, pid_ns_ctl_table_vm);
> > +}
> > +#else
> > +static inline void set_memfd_noexec_scope(struct pid_namespace *ns) {}
> > +static inline void register_pid_ns_ctl_table_vm(void) {}
> > +#endif
> [...]
>
> I found this patch makes build fails whne CONFIG_SYSCTL or CONFIG_MEMFD_CREATE
> are not defined, as initialize_memfd_noexec_scope() and
> register_pid_ns_sysctl_table_vm() are used from pid_namespace.c without the
> configs protection.
>
> I just posted a patch for that:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20221216183314.169707-1-sj@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Could you please check?
>
Hi SeongJae,
Thanks for the patch ! I responded to the other thread.

Andrew,
>From a process point of view, should I update this patch to V9 to
include the fix ?
or add a patch directly on top in the mm-unstable branch.

Thanks
Jeff

>
> Thanks,
> SJ



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