3.16.43-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jann Horn <jann@xxxxxxxxx> commit 22f6b4d34fcf039c63a94e7670e0da24f8575a5a upstream. This ensures that do_mmap() won't implicitly make AIO memory mappings executable if the READ_IMPLIES_EXEC personality flag is set. Such behavior is problematic because the security_mmap_file LSM hook doesn't catch this case, potentially permitting an attacker to bypass a W^X policy enforced by SELinux. I have tested the patch on my machine. To test the behavior, compile and run this: #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/personality.h> #include <linux/aio_abi.h> #include <err.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/syscall.h> int main(void) { personality(READ_IMPLIES_EXEC); aio_context_t ctx = 0; if (syscall(__NR_io_setup, 1, &ctx)) err(1, "io_setup"); char cmd[1000]; sprintf(cmd, "cat /proc/%d/maps | grep -F '/[aio]'", (int)getpid()); system(cmd); return 0; } In the output, "rw-s" is good, "rwxs" is bad. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jann@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: we don't have super_block::s_iflags; use file_system_type::fs_flags instead] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/aio.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/aio.c +++ b/fs/aio.c @@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ static int __init aio_setup(void) .name = "aio", .mount = aio_mount, .kill_sb = kill_anon_super, + .fs_flags = FS_NOEXEC, }; aio_mnt = kern_mount(&aio_fs); if (IS_ERR(aio_mnt))