The patch titled Subject: exec: relocate path_noexec() check has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was exec-relocate-path_noexec-check.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged ------------------------------------------------------ From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: exec: relocate path_noexec() check The path_noexec() check, like the regular file check, was happening too late, letting LSMs see impossible execve()s. Check it earlier as well and collect the redundant fs/exec.c path_noexec() test under the same robustness comment as the S_ISREG() check. My notes on the call path, and related arguments, checks, etc: do_open_execat() struct open_flags open_exec_flags = { .open_flag = O_LARGEFILE | O_RDONLY | __FMODE_EXEC, ... do_filp_open(dfd, filename, open_flags) path_openat(nameidata, open_flags, flags) /* f_mode populated from open_flags in alloc_empty_file() */ file = alloc_empty_file(open_flags, current_cred()); do_open(nameidata, file, open_flags) /* new location of FMODE_EXEC vs path_noexec() test */ may_open(path, acc_mode, open_flag) inode_permission(inode, MAY_OPEN | acc_mode) security_inode_permission(inode, acc_mode) vfs_open(path, file) do_dentry_open(file, path->dentry->d_inode, open) security_file_open(f) open() /* old location of path_noexec() test */ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200518055457.12302-4-keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/exec.c | 6 ++---- fs/namei.c | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/fs/exec.c~exec-relocate-path_noexec-check +++ a/fs/exec.c @@ -140,13 +140,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(uselib, const char __use goto out; /* - * do_open() has already checked for this, but we can be extra + * do_open() has already checked for these, but we can be extra * cautious and check again at the very end too. */ error = -EACCES; if (!S_ISREG(file_inode(file)->i_mode)) goto exit; - if (path_noexec(&file->f_path)) goto exit; @@ -889,13 +888,12 @@ static struct file *do_open_execat(int f goto out; /* - * do_open() has already checked for this, but we can be extra + * do_open() has already checked for these, but we can be extra * cautious and check again at the very end too. */ err = -EACCES; if (!S_ISREG(file_inode(file)->i_mode)) goto exit; - if (path_noexec(&file->f_path)) goto exit; --- a/fs/namei.c~exec-relocate-path_noexec-check +++ a/fs/namei.c @@ -3212,8 +3212,9 @@ static int do_open(struct nameidata *nd, if ((nd->flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) && !d_can_lookup(nd->path.dentry)) return -ENOTDIR; - /* Any file opened for execution has to be a regular file. */ - if ((file->f_flags & FMODE_EXEC) && !d_is_reg(nd->path.dentry)) + /* Opening for execution requires a regular file on an exec mnt. */ + if ((file->f_flags & FMODE_EXEC) && (!d_is_reg(nd->path.dentry) || + path_noexec(&nd->path))) return -EACCES; do_truncate = false; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx are fs-include-fmode_exec-when-converting-flags-to-f_mode.patch