From 6fd7353829cafc4067aad9eea0dc95da67e7df16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Verkamp Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:12:01 +0000 Subject: mm/memfd: add F_SEAL_EXEC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Patch series "mm/memfd: introduce MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL and MFD_EXEC", v8. Since Linux introduced the memfd feature, memfd have always had their execute bit set, and the memfd_create() syscall doesn't allow setting it differently. However, in a secure by default system, such as ChromeOS, (where all executables should come from the rootfs, which is protected by Verified boot), this executable nature of memfd opens a door for NoExec bypass and enables “confused deputy attack”. E.g, in VRP bug [1]: cros_vm process created a memfd to share the content with an external process, however the memfd is overwritten and used for executing arbitrary code and root escalation. [2] lists more VRP in this kind. On the other hand, executable memfd has its legit use, runc uses memfd’s seal and executable feature to copy the contents of the binary then execute them, for such system, we need a solution to differentiate runc's use of executable memfds and an attacker's [3]. To address those above, this set of patches add following: 1> Let memfd_create() set X bit at creation time. 2> Let memfd to be sealed for modifying X bit. 3> A new pid namespace sysctl: vm.memfd_noexec to control the behavior of X bit.For example, if a container has vm.memfd_noexec=2, then memfd_create() without MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL will be rejected. 4> A new security hook in memfd_create(). This make it possible to a new LSM, which rejects or allows executable memfd based on its security policy. This patch (of 5): The new F_SEAL_EXEC flag will prevent modification of the exec bits: written as traditional octal mask, 0111, or as named flags, S_IXUSR | S_IXGRP | S_IXOTH. Any chmod(2) or similar call that attempts to modify any of these bits after the seal is applied will fail with errno EPERM. This will preserve the execute bits as they are at the time of sealing, so the memfd will become either permanently executable or permanently un-executable. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221215001205.51969-1-jeffxu@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221215001205.51969-2-jeffxu@google.com Signed-off-by: Daniel Verkamp Co-developed-by: Jeff Xu Signed-off-by: Jeff Xu Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Cc: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jorge Lucangeli Obes Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: David Herrmann Cc: kernel test robot Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/shmem.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm/shmem.c') diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 0005ab2c29af..d3f0c94f6836 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -1093,6 +1093,12 @@ static int shmem_setattr(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, if (error) return error; + if ((info->seals & F_SEAL_EXEC) && (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_MODE)) { + if ((inode->i_mode ^ attr->ia_mode) & 0111) { + return -EPERM; + } + } + if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE)) { loff_t oldsize = inode->i_size; loff_t newsize = attr->ia_size; -- cgit v1.2.3