On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 at 08:35, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Oh, yikes. This means the LSM lost the knowledge that this open is an > _exec_, not a _read_. > > I will starting looking at this. John might be able to point me in the > right direction more quickly, though. One obvious change in -rc1 is that the exec open was moved much earlier: commit 978ffcbf00d8 ("execve: open the executable file before doing anything else"). If the code ends up deciding "is this an exec" based on some state flag that hasn't been set, that would explain it. Something like "current->in_execve", perhaps? Linus