On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 6:21 AM Jeff Xu <jeffxu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Do you know which code checks for VM_MAYEXEC flag in the mprotect code
> > path ? it isn't obvious to me, i.e. when I grep the VM_MAYEXEC inside
> > mm path, it only shows one place in mprotect and that doesn't do the
> > work.
> >
> > ~/mm/mm$ grep VM_MAYEXEC *
> > mmap.c: mm->def_flags | VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYWRITE | VM_MAYEXEC;
> > mmap.c: vm_flags &= ~VM_MAYEXEC;
> > mprotect.c: if (rier && (vma->vm_flags & VM_MAYEXEC))
> > nommu.c: vm_flags |= VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYWRITE | VM_MAYEXEC;
> > nommu.c: vm_flags |= VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYWRITE | VM_MAYEXEC;
>
> The check happens here:
>
> /* newflags >> 4 shift VM_MAY% in place of VM_% */
> if ((newflags & ~(newflags >> 4)) & VM_ACCESS_FLAGS) {
> error = -EACCES;
> break;
> }
Thanks for helping !
-Jeff
>
> Alice
